When I was in high school I worked part time at a friend’s farm doing everything from fixing fence to performing minor surgery. The physical nature of the job quickly taught me the value of working hard to accomplish a task, and I grew to appreciate the physical soreness that accompanies a long day’s labor (hey, I was still a kid). But, as you’ve probably noticed, this website is not called “The Hard-Working Landscape Architect”. Don’t get me wrong, hard work is super important whether it is physical like my high school job or intellectual like my present day one. But the older I get, the more I appreciate laziness.
My boss at that farm once said remarked that “it took a lazy person to invent hydraulics”. If you’ve never worked on a farm this might not stand out to you, but hydraulics are the true workhorses of farming. Every tractor, dump bed, feed grinder, and plow uses hydraulics in some form or another to lift and move the things that are way too heavy to lift and move by any other means. And since I am an expert in history (because I’m a man) I can say with confidence that without hydraulics, modern farming would not exist.
Where am I going with this? Why, a thesis statement of course! Something short, pithy, and totally meme-able would be ideal… how about:
That seems suitably pompous. Thank goodness for CSS, it’d be really hard to style something like that without it.
So that’s what this blog is about: working smarter so you don’t have to work harder. You’ve probably heard this concept before in the form of “less clicking, more designing”, or something similar. I am focused in this blog on a few common areas: drawing production strategies, Revit and AutoCAD workflows, programming custom tools, project management, and general work strategies. I will almost certainly add more things to this list over time.
There are plenty of other amazing blogs out there by superiorly talented individuals, however I haven’t found much in my searches that is specifically geared towards landscape architects. I hope you find this information useful, or at the very least amusing. I plan to write an article or more every week so there is a wealth of content available quickly. But also I might not, I am after all somewhat lazy.