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title: 2025-11-13
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- authorship/original
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- destiny/permanent
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# 2025-11-13
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## 2025-11-13 08:03:??
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#topic/hobbies/writing
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I was thinking about recent critiques of my writing style
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and how they don't really apply to my speech,
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even though I don't imagine myself approaching them differently.
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I imagine I _would_ speak like I write,
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but that to use the same constructions
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would require a level of forethought
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that I'm not capable of under the pressure of conversation.
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## 2025-11-13 08:19:??
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#topic/estimating #occupational
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I'm still working on articulating
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my main difficulty in the transition
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from Ace to PDI estimating.
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At a high level,
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it's that our process is built on _instrumental_ methods,
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but that it is frequently judged from a _realist_ perspective.
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See [[realism-vs-instrumentalism]].
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There may be a more accurate way to state this.
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[[2025-11-10#2025-11-10 11 14]] may be an example of a similar issue,
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where instrumental methods are presented as if they were realist,
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causing confusion when the methods are,
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as judged from a realist perspective, wrong.
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## 2025-11-13 ??:??:??
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#occupational
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### Questions for Bid Estimators
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Questions for [[pdi-estimating#Bid Estimating|PDI Bid Estimators]].
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#### Exclusions
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When we send proposals with significant exclusions
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(no lighting control, no demo, no submetering,
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even when designed and shown on drawings):
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Is there a conversation happening with our customers
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before they receive our proposal?
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Is it clear they understand what we're excluding?
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## 2025-11-13 20:41:??
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#topic/hobbies/shorthand
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I've decided I've considered learning [[shorthand]]
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enough times independently
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that I would likely benefit from it.
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I added [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand|a book]]
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on [[shorthand#Gregg Notehand]]
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to my calibre library.
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