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2014 August

Letters to a General Superintendent

What follows is a series of letters supposedly written by an owner (Jack Owployer) in response to a general superintendent’s (Joe Gensup) request for something more than the typical job description. Though the company had...

2014 July

The Obstacle of Progress (Part 7)

I’m going to have to zero in on this subject, make the point as well as I’m able to, wrap this article up and move on. After all, we’ve spent seven months perusing this topic....

2014 June

Anticipatory Service

Editor’s Note: Four California wildfires were looming in Doug Bellamy’s neighborhood when the deadline for this issue approached, so we told him we would re-run his August 2012 column while he worked on keeping his...

2014 May

The Obstacle of Progress (Part 6)

Let’s talk about that contractor I’ve alluded to throughout this series. This individual, who shall anonymous, came up the hard way. He tells tales of working for free on weekends to learn another facet of...

2014 April

The Obstacle of Progress (Part 5)

Last month I asked you to take a few moments to Google the Ames brothers and read the fascinating story that describes these pioneers of the drywall industry. In doing so you would have followed...

2014 March

The Obstacle of Progress (Part 4)

The classic Western blockbuster movie “How the West Was Won” was released in 1962. It begins with the accidental discovery of gold in a streambed winding its way through the undeveloped California countryside and ends...

2014 February

The Obstacle of Progress (Part 3)

For the last few months we’ve been examining the notion of what I call “the obstacle of progress.” We really haven’t focused on drywall. That is to say, I have not given you some hot...

January 2014

The Obstacle of Progress (Part 1)

George Bernard Shaw wrote that “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ...

2013 December

The Obstacle of Progress (Part 2)

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for...