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2019 August

Lowball Madness

You better come back around to the sad old truth—the dirty low down…—from “The Weight” by Robbie Robertson They say if you let a dog eat the scraps from under the table, it...

2019 July

Come Tomorrow, Part 3

It ain’t necessarily so…—George and Ira Gershwin I spent the last two months’ installments of “Estimator’s Edge” making a case for my notion that the forthcoming emergence of artificial intelligence will almost certainly...

2019 July

Come Tomorrow, Part 3

It ain’t necessarily so…—George and Ira Gershwin I spent the last two months’ installments of “Estimator’s Edge” making a case for my notion that the forthcoming emergence of artificial intelligence will almost certainly...

2019 June

Come Tomorrow, Part 2

It’s the end of the world as we know it.—REM Estimators, you should stop casually paging through this issue and zero right in on the following prediction: Your function as we now know...

2019 May

Come Tomorrow, Part 1

Shapes of things before my eyes just teach me to despise.—The Yardbirds Much as I hate to, I am about to reverse myself on a position that I’ve expressed in this column a...

2019 April

Job Walk

Here comes Johnny, gonna tell you the story; hand me down my walkin’ shoes…—“Walk of Life,” Dire Straits There’s no denying the abounding enjoyment I get from a good walk. I can’t think...

2019 March

Pay Dirt!

It’s Monday, mid-morning. You’re on your way back from a long and arduous scope meeting with a GC you’ve never scored with before, scrutinizing a multi-million-dollar hotel project you’d recently bid. Just you sitting...

2019 February

Glancing Ahead

The future’s not ours to see; que sera, sera… —Livingston and Evans, as performed by Doris Day As one who enjoys reminiscing, and one who otherwise tries to live in the present, I...

January 2019

Afterthoughts, Part 2

Get back to where you once belonged…—Lennon and McCartney “We would certainly be receptive to a number that includes ornamental precast!”      I cannot begin to count the number of times a...