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In a message dated 10/1/98 6:41:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> A body of knowledge based only on habit without question and doubt ? That
>  sounds like the technical definition for obsolescence.

Obsolescence is the word... what I started on thinking here was the penchant
for people to take the first solution that pops into their head without any
real knowlege to know if it will apply or not to the problem. How many times
do you run into a situation where someone says, "Do it this way.", and you
look at the situation and see 1) that they read it out of an old book that is
now outdated or 2) that they never looked to really see what the problem was
to begin with? Worse, actions, possibly detrimental to the building fabric,
get repeated and distorted from one individual to another simply because the
first individual in the chain was considered an authority. Everyone is working
with the best intentions, but nobody along the line stops to ask what is going
on. An example -- I hate it when we send a crew to a project and they come
back with materials at the end of the day and tell us that they did not know
what they were for. I mean like, "Why did you not call and ask?" Another
principle: Expect the most obvious thing to go wrong, and remember that you
cannot see the obvious.

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