Category: house metaphors
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Code standards and my roof
Two (2) months after buying our first house, a giant hailstorm rolled through South Minneapolis, and damaged practically everyone’s roof. This is what homeowner’s insurance is for, so we filed, like everyone within like 2 miles of us. This was the week that the roofers arrived to tear off the old shingles and replace them.…
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Team-Led Growth and Staging
Not that kind of staging. Team-based products are really hard to demo, because they’re hard to see the value of as a single person. If the point of the product is collaboration, standing up a single user account doesn’t really show any of the value. It’s like the difference between touring a completely empty house,…
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The containers of yesterday and the content of today
There are almost no logical places to put a 60-inch tv in a craftsman foursquare house. The house is built for light and air and an era where the home entertainment center was a piano and a victrola. Where meals were eaten at a dining table and gas lighting and coal boilers were the order…
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Building codes and the price of progress
Safety codes are a pain in the butt. Here is my reflection on our electrical code.