Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (rly-zd05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.229]) by air-zd04.mail.aol.com (v50.14) with SMTP; Thu, 01 Oct 1998 22:40:38 -0400 Received: from majordomo.netcom.com (listless.netcom.com [206.217.29.105]) by rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id WAA14372; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 22:38:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by majordomo.netcom.com (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5/(NETCOM v1.01)) id TAA10591; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:34:33 -0700 (PDT) From: [log in to unmask] Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 22:33:40 EDT To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: How can we trust you about Cedar Shakes... X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 167 Sender: [log in to unmask] Errors-To: [log in to unmask] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/1/98 6:41:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > 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says, "Do it this way.", and you look at the situation and see 1) that they read it out of an old book that is now outdated or 2) that they never looked to really see what the problem was to begin with?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. ][<en