2025-11-13

2025-11-13 08:03

#topic/hobbies/writing

I was thinking about recent critiques of my writing style and how they don't really apply to my speech, even though I don't imagine myself approaching them differently.

I imagine I would speak like I write, but that to use the same constructions would require a level of forethought that I'm not capable of under the pressure of conversation.

2025-11-13 08:19

#topic/estimating

I'm still working on articulating my main difficulty in the transition from Ace to PDI estimating.

At a high level, it's that our process is built on instrumental methods, but that it is frequently judged from a realist perspective. See realism-vs-instrumentalism.

There may be a more accurate way to state this. 2025-11-10#2025-11-10 11 14 may be an example of a similar issue, where instrumental methods are presented as if they were realist, causing confusion when the methods are, as judged from a realist perspective, wrong.

2025-11-13 ??:??

Questions for Bid Estimators

Questions for pdi-estimating#Bid Estimating.

Exclusions

When we send proposals with significant exclusions (no lighting control, no demo, no submetering, even when designed and shown on drawings):

Is there a conversation happening with our customers before they receive our proposal?

Is it clear they understand what we're excluding?

2025-11-13 20:41

#topic/hobbies/shorthand

I've decided I've considered learning shorthand enough times independently that I would likely benefit from it.

I added leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand on shorthand#Gregg Notehand to my calibre library.

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