As someone who is a contractor, though not a creative, I have a lot of sympathy for your friend. Her clients may be setting their own money on fire, but her efforts are also going up in smoke....
As someone who is a contractor, though not a creative, I have a lot of sympathy for your friend. Her clients may be setting their own money on fire, but her efforts are also going up in smoke. It's demoralizing to have your work thrown away even if you do get paid for it.
Mate of mine is a consultant. Recently spent £395K on a specific project with a client over six months to develop a big technical project. Client hires a Head of <That project> who promptly...
Mate of mine is a consultant. Recently spent £395K on a specific project with a client over six months to develop a big technical project.
Client hires a Head of <That project> who promptly disregards all of my friends work.
The amount of wasted energy that goes into this our work is insane.
This is a great blog on public transportation and I'm happy to see articles from Levy shared on Tildes. I agree with a lot of the sentiments of this post. It's genuinely astounding to talk to city...
This is a great blog on public transportation and I'm happy to see articles from Levy shared on Tildes.
I agree with a lot of the sentiments of this post. It's genuinely astounding to talk to city planners, managers, or other officials about an easy and obvious transportation solution that they are simply unwilling to hear about. So often this comes down to egos, as alluded to in the article, or a belief that "it's not from our village, so it can't be that good." Or in some cases it is people who have simply given up on policy innovation.
The remark about conditional signaling is appalling but so very true. For some time I have understood that the hardest part about creating good infrastructure isn't the technical challenge of it (civil engineers will lie awake at night thinking about construction parameters), nor the funding per se (voters will approve any suitably convincing marketing campaign if you ask them enough times), but buy-in from in-group stakeholders—actual decision-makers—to focus on more than the status quo and to not constantly fall back into "maintenance mode." It seems that people lose grasp of their dreams once they enter the bureaucratic machine. It's ultimately the dreams that keep it running, though. We should always remember them.
But I love engaging with the infrastructure process. It brings me so much joy to see the joy in the eyes of a city planner who has spent years or maybe decades yearning for a particular new park or line extension or whatever else to finally be realized. I love to attend the community meetings and let them indulge themselves about all the benefits of the project and how much good it will do for the city. It's nice to hear those dreams come true.
As someone who is a contractor, though not a creative, I have a lot of sympathy for your friend. Her clients may be setting their own money on fire, but her efforts are also going up in smoke. It's demoralizing to have your work thrown away even if you do get paid for it.
Mate of mine is a consultant. Recently spent £395K on a specific project with a client over six months to develop a big technical project.
Client hires a Head of <That project> who promptly disregards all of my friends work.
The amount of wasted energy that goes into this our work is insane.
This is a great blog on public transportation and I'm happy to see articles from Levy shared on Tildes.
I agree with a lot of the sentiments of this post. It's genuinely astounding to talk to city planners, managers, or other officials about an easy and obvious transportation solution that they are simply unwilling to hear about. So often this comes down to egos, as alluded to in the article, or a belief that "it's not from our village, so it can't be that good." Or in some cases it is people who have simply given up on policy innovation.
The remark about conditional signaling is appalling but so very true. For some time I have understood that the hardest part about creating good infrastructure isn't the technical challenge of it (civil engineers will lie awake at night thinking about construction parameters), nor the funding per se (voters will approve any suitably convincing marketing campaign if you ask them enough times), but buy-in from in-group stakeholders—actual decision-makers—to focus on more than the status quo and to not constantly fall back into "maintenance mode." It seems that people lose grasp of their dreams once they enter the bureaucratic machine. It's ultimately the dreams that keep it running, though. We should always remember them.
But I love engaging with the infrastructure process. It brings me so much joy to see the joy in the eyes of a city planner who has spent years or maybe decades yearning for a particular new park or line extension or whatever else to finally be realized. I love to attend the community meetings and let them indulge themselves about all the benefits of the project and how much good it will do for the city. It's nice to hear those dreams come true.