Asking a good question is a skill, not a personality trait, but most people treat it like something you either have or you don't. It works more like a muscle - the more deliberately you use it, the … [Read more...]
Ep 207: Forward Beats Perfect
Every decision eventually arrives at a point where more thinking stops helping and only starts postponing whatever is coming anyway. Nobody experiences that moment as procrastination while it is … [Read more...]
Ep 202: From Practice to Professor
So you are thinking about teaching architecture. You’ve got some years of experience under your belt and you want to share your knowledge with the next generation. Or you’ve always felt a calling to … [Read more...]
Ep 201: The Middle of Middle Management
There are moments in practice when your job begins changing before anyone has formally admitted that your job has changed. The work you already have remains, but the expectations around it begin to … [Read more...]
Ep 200: Hate to Love You
Two hundred episodes leaves behind more than a back catalog. It leaves a record of what we cared about, what we got right, what we wrestled with, and what kept changing shape the longer we sat with … [Read more...]
Episode 199: Conflict Resolution
Conflict doesn’t usually start with shouting. Conflict typically starts with a room full of professionals trying to keep it together while money, timing, blame, and ego begin working themselves up … [Read more...]