What a career eventually teaches you — if you let it A month ago, I wrote a piece called Where I Spend My Time. I wasn’t entirely sure how it would land. It felt personal, maybe too personal. But the response surprised me. Messages from colleagues. A note from someone who said they were going to have their college freshman read it. Conversations that started with I’ve been thinking about what you wrote… and went somewhere I didn’t expect. One of those conversations happened at The Bitter...

Recently I read a blog post that asked a simple question: Why don’t architects retire? The premise was familiar to anyone who has spent a life in design. Once you are trained as an architect, you never stop seeing the world through that lens. We notice how light enters a room. We study how people move through space. We instinctively question why something was placed here instead of there. Architecture rewires how you see the world. I understand that completely. In fact, I sometimes joke th

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