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Continuing on with comments on “Extreme Jobs - the Dangerous Allure of the 70 hour Workweek“, Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce found from their research that people with extreme jobs may not always experience burn out, but rather what they call “Brown Outs”.
From the perspective of Van Halen - it means no [...]

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In the December 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review, Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce outlined what they called “Extreme Jobs - the Dangerous Allure of the 70 hour Workweek“. They search for answers as to why people spend this level of time at work, what drives them and what, if any, are [...]

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I was checking my blog stats and noticed that I have just passed the 300,000 page view milestone. That included 29,318 people as return visitors. And an average of 150 first time visitors showing up each day.
Now - to the big boy of blogging that may not seem like a big [...]

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In a recent AIA publication entitled “The Business of Architecture” they stated that information from a survey of member firms indicated that 16% of the firms were using BIM with 10% of them using it for billable work.
Autodesk announced that they passed a milestone of 100,000 seats sold in a June, 2006 press release.
ArchiCAD [...]

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I have used this program forever. And it is GREAT!
XRP - generate relative paths for XREFs - [...]

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I have provided training and management in CAD for many many years. One thing that I have to constantly remind myself about is that the speed of learning differs for each and every person. Some may catch on quick and others may take time before it sinks in.
I need to be willing to [...]

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I work in the Architectural industry. The process of design and construction is a partnership between owner, designer and builder. The role of the architect is to place into the construction documents enough information to define the design, provide performance and material specs and to determine constraints. The role of the contractor [...]

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