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You Need Five New Hires to Replace One Retiree
Construction’s labor conversation is usually a counting exercise. Retirements out, apprentices in, subtract one from the other and publish the gap. has run those numbers more carefully than most of the people quoting them, and his version...
The Debrief: June 2026
Once a month, I sit down with some of the brightest minds in the industry (Episode Link) and argue through the construction news that actually mattered. The episode is the conversation. This is the analysis.
You’re reading the first Execut...
The Product Was Never the Hard Part
There is real skepticism about the value venture capital brings to construction, and I understand it. I have spent time on both sides of the table, first in the headquarters of a large builder, and now running a construction-focused fund. T...
Construction Briefs | 018 - You Can't Build from the Drawings
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Welcome to this weeks Construction Brief.
We’re in the dog days of summer, or is that July/August…all I know is I start sweating when I even think about going outside.
I am building an office! Better said I am moving my office back...
The Methodology Bet Survived Katerra. It Lives In Robotics Now
Silver bullets rarely describe themselves as such and yet during its peak being the silver bullets was essentially the business model for Katerra. Then Chapter 11 happened in June of 2021 and it was seemingly proof that vertically integrati...
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