Special guests Ian Keough of Hypar and Clifton Harness of TestFit join me to talk about the evolution they've experienced in their different kinds of startups (platform versus product, respectively), and take us behind the scenes to share what it's like running companies, building teams, and building software as CEO's.

Other potential unused episode titles from our conversation: ‘A Whole Flotilla’ and ‘Feral Desire’ (thanks to Clifton), which are now going on the list of good names for bands.

Links

• Ian Keough
• Ian on twitter
• Ian's YouTube talk to the AIA Strategic Council
• TRXL podcast episode 003: ‘A Local Maxima’, with Ian Keough
• Hypar
• Hypar website
• Hypar's YouTube channel
• Clifton Harness
• Clifton on twitter
• Clifton's YouTube talk to the AIA Strategic Council
• TRXL podcast episode 005: ’BIM is a T-Rex‘, with Clifton Harness
• TestFit
• TestFit website
• eBook: 18 Ways to Increase Density in Multifamily Buildings
• TestFit's YouTube channel
• Bad Monkeys
• Case, Inc.
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Special guest Aaron Maller of Parallax Team joins the podcast to talk about why he got into the Revit consulting business, building 'a' team versus building 'the' team, what constitutes "a total hot mess", and more.

Links

• Parallax Team website
• Parallax Product Page
• FOREground for Revit - new, real site tools for Revit (currently in development)
• Parallax Team on Twitter
• Aaron on LinkedIn
• Aaron on Twitter
• Tools mentioned:
• Notion
• Otter
• Descript
• Grain
• TRXL episode 028: ‘A (Robotic) Holiday Spectacular’, with Brian Ringley
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Special guest Ian Janicki of Outfit joins the podcast to talk about ‘The Moment‘.

The Moment serves as a backdrop to kick off a conversation about what we're seeing happening in AEC Tech. The moniker is in reference to the unforeseen convergence of several tech companies in the mid 1990's that brought so-called extreme sports into the mainstream. We then use this as a framework to examine which startups currently working (possibly/hopefully in concert with one another) toward The Moment for AEC.

Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

In this episode we explore the topics of platforms and apps, puzzles and puzzle pieces, infrastructure and API's, what's changing and what's not changing in the next 10 years, the choice to work on hard projects versus latching on to shiny objects, moving bits versus marshaling atoms, and more.

Links

• Outfit
• Ian on Twitter
• Outfit on Twitter
• Outfit on Instagram
• Ian on LinkedIn
• Evan's AEC // Tech twitter list
• Architechie website and Slack channel
• Hypar – TRXL 003: ‘A Local Maxima’, with Ian Keough
• TestFit – TRXL 005: ’BIM is a T-Rex‘, with Clifton Harness
• Upcodes – TRXL 021: ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’, with Scott Reynolds
• Reonomy
• Xamarin
• Katerra
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Special guest Dr. Upali Nanda of HKS Architects joins the podcast to talk about the achilles heel of architecture, design diagnostics, occupancy outcomes, feedback loops, and what all of these have to do with her work at the intersection of research, data, neuroscience, and space.

Links

• Upali on Twitter
• Upali Nanda uses neuroscience to understand buildings as living organisms (Archpaper)
• HKS Architects
• HKS Research
• HKS LINE (Laboratory for INtensive Exploration)
• Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan
• Center for Advanced Design Research and Evaluation
• Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
• Venn diagram (Wikipedia)
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Special guests Brad Feinknopf and Lawrence Anderson join the podcast to talk about how they collaborate with architects to deliver visual storytelling in their evolving field of expertise — architectural photography.

Links

• Brad Feinknopf's website
• Brad on Instagram
• Brad on Twitter
• Lawrence Anderson's website
• Lawrence on Instagram
• Lawrence on Twitter
• Richard Avadon (Wikipedia)
• Fernando Guerra on Instagram
• Columbus College of Art & Design
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Special guest Dion Moult joins the podcast to talk about Open Source software, BlenderBIM, OpenBIM, the Open Source Architecture (OSArch) community, the problem of file formats and software companies that create lock-in, making informed choices about project development workflows relating to technology and software, thinking bigger about the ecosystems of our built environments, and much more.

Links

• Dion's blog
• The OSArch Community website
• learn.osarch.org video tutorials
• OSArch on Twitter
• BlenderBIM website
• BlenderBIM on Twitter
• Blender website & community
• FreeCAD website
• Open-source software defined (Wikipedia)
• IfcOpenShell website
• BuildingSMART website
• Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) wiki
• Ladybug Tools website (Free environmental analysis tools)
• OPEN Foam website (Open source CFD analysis tools)
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Special guest Randy Deutsch once again joins the podcast to talk about connecting the dots, the importance of learning to get outside of the echo chamber and talk each other's language, and his latest book about mid-career professionals adapting to new trajectories while staying within the profession of architecture.

Links

• Randy's website
• Randy's twitter
• Adapt As An Architect: A Mid-Career Companion by Randy Deutsch (Amazon | Bookshop)
• TRXL 004: ’What Else You Got‘, with Randy Deutsch
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Special guest Dror Poleg joins the podcast to talk about technology and real estate including WeWork's holistic product approach, feedback loops, social layers on top of physical environments, the Power law curve, the decoupling of location and productivity, and much more.

Links

• Dror's website
• Dror's newsletter (highly recommended)
• Dror's Twitter
• Dror's online courses: Real Innovation Academy
• The Office Prisoner's Dilemma by Dror Poleg
• We're Never Going Back by Packy McCormick
• Power law curve (Wikipedia)
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
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Special guest Petr Mitev of Enscape joins the podcast to talk about his recent transition away from an architectural firm and what's going on in the democratization of visualization creation in our profession. We even take a moment to reminisce about old-school rendering applications and computer labs in school — does anyone remember administrating the render farm?

Links

• Petr's Twitter
• Petr's LinkedIn
• Petr's GitHub
• Petr's Website
• Enscape Website
• New Mission/Vision
• 3.0 Announcement
• Enscape's YouTube Channel
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Special guest Rob Asher of Giraffe Technology joins the podcast to talk about his circuitous path to software development via math, philosophy, and architecture, the professional goals of architects serving societies for human flourishing, building tools that encourage interactivity, the role of technology, and so much more.

Links

• Rob on LinkedIn
• Giraffe Technology website
• GenerativeComponents (Wikipedia)
• Cox Architects
• Grasshopper
• David Rutten
• Rhinocerous
• Hypar
• Episode 003: Ian Keough on TRXL
• Episode 014: Andrew Heumann on TRXL
• Episode 032: Anthony Hauck on TRXL
• Christopher Alexander's Books:
• A Pattern Language (Amazon | Bookshop)
• The Timeless Way of Building (Amazon | Bookshop)
• A New Theory of Urban Design (Amazon | Bookshop)
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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