During my late, somewhat unlamented career, I hired architects and
engineers. At some point I started asking interviewees what was the
dumbest thing they ever did in construction and what did they do about
it. I wouldn't hire anyone who hadn't done something dumb and in some
cases I even hired people who hadn't been able to do anything about the
mistake, but had some good ideas of what should have been done. I got
one really great story out of this practice and some pretty good ones
and will retell the astonishing one offline if anyone is interested.
BTW, this wasn't my idea, Clauswitz (politics is war by other means)
apparently used to do something like this when he was looking for
generals in the early part of the 19th century. Sorry, but if you
haven't ever done anything dumb (or made a mistake to put it more
charitably) likely you haven't done anything.
Happy New Year to the great people who frequent this reflector. I take
elements 1, 2 & 3 on Saturday here in Marathon, FL and hope ot be
joining you all mid month.
John Ferguson
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