A couple of years ago I read Gerd Gigerenzer’s book, Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You. I thought it was great, and am surprised it isn’t discussed more widely. Last night I started another of his books, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. From the first page: “A Columbia University was struggling over whether to accept […]
All posts tagged Philosophy
Larry Haun RIP
Fine Homebuilding has this obituary for Larry Haun. An icon of carpentry, I was inspired to switch to gang-cutting rafters by watching his videos and reading his books. One of the building construction greats.
Category News, Process
Tags Philosophy
Special
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”* I’ve attended dozens of building science training sessions. For the most part these are excellent. Usually hosted by folks with a lot of experience. However, one of the most irksome aspects to these sessions is the tendency of otherwise […]
Category News, Process
Tags Philosophy
Selection
Some readers may know of my passion for endurance sports. And while I don’t follow football religiously, I did catch some of this year’s awesome Super Bowl. Pretty incredible stuff! Post-game analysis often seems like so much hot air. Nevertheless, I found Ross Tucker and Jonathan Dugas’s article from the ‘Science of Sport’s’ website interesting. In it, they note the […]
Category News, Process
Tags Philosophy
Best Practice
Selecting a builder is tough, particularly for a the quality conscious homeowner. Most builders know the right things to say, so initial meetings are about as awkward as slow dancing with your high school ex. If you’re interviewing builders, you’ll probably hear a lot of this classic, “we’re not cheap, but we do quality work.” Yeah thanks, I haven’t heard […]
Category News, Process
Tags Performance, Philosophy
Speed Cleaning
Speed Cleaning For months I’ve been raving about a book that has changed my life and given me back hours of precious time. The book is called ‘Speed Cleaning’, and is available from http://www.thecleanteam.com/ Now what does a cleaning book have to do with building construction? Well a few things: 1/ After construction, people are often left wondering how to […]
Category News, Process
Tags Philosophy
Blog Introduction
Tay River has a blog! A couple of quick notes on why we’re doing this, and what readers should expect. What We’ll be Discussing We’re builders, so our principle goal is to help clients get through the building process. To that end we’ll be focusing a lot on the proper execution of building projects. We’ll try to steer homeowners clear […]
