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@bentziavtzon Similar to קבלת עול

The cynicism around temimus is owed to its being weaponised by yeshivos (and lesser extent shadchonim) to mean meek and harmless “The less thoughts of your own the better” When irl temimus takes serious courage “With everything you know you still believe in something pure?!”

@shawngorham How does the invested time and capital compare?

I completed 4 flips that made $75,000 each My friend did one flip in the same time period that made $320,000 Who has the better business model?

This piece by @soniaossario is 🎯 on Zohran Mamdani’s anti-women stance. Legalizing prostitution isn’t about protecting women, it puts young women & teens in harms way. “This isn’t progress. It’s reckless, dangerous and profoundly anti-woman, anti-child and anti-family”

@antonia_mdprjct In the Lighting Industry, sales reps love quoting ins LOT prices, such that you are paying obscene amounts of money for a BOH 4ft Strip

Every single time I post a version of: “Let’s all be fair, transparent and ethical with our contracts” I get some version of the following: “You hate for other people to make money” “You hate all [enter professional/trade example I used] and you’ve never worked with a good one” “Why should someone be transparent when not everyone is” “It’s not against the law, so it’s ok” “That’s too much paperwork” (I also get plenty of comments saying “Yes! That’s how we run our company, it’s so much better.”) It’s telling. Every time.

@antonia_mdprjct Should be called Cost Engineering not Value Engineering 😄

People often confuse cost with value.

@mwmoedinger Bonus, try to use 0-10v as much as possible. Takes away all the compatibility issues that traditional (triac elv) has.

4. Dimmers! Yes, dimmers cost a bit more than plain switches, but they give you so much control over your space and your lighting. Install them everywhere - kitchens, hallways, bathrooms - you'll be amazed how much they transform a space.

Overhead lighting: everyone does it, but most do it poorly! Even with "can lights" and cheap LED pucks, there are things you can do to improve overhead lighting that don't cost much [if anything] and will make a vast improvement in your lighting. Read on👇👇

Read @SnoozyWeiss on the Ohel: thefp.com/p/the-most-imp…

@antonia_mdprjct Or they padded the numbers to give you a "discount" - scarierer 😃

1 - When a contractor drops their price by >10% without scope changes. They either don't know the scope well (scary) or they're desperate for work to the extent that they are bidding below their costs (scarier). Neither situation is good. When a price decreases significantly during the bid process, either a corresponding scope change or a cleared-up misunderstanding should be documented.

Red Flags in Contractor Pricing This is a quick list of some of the most common issues I see people struggle with during pricing. (This one is equally relevant for project owners and for contractors!)

@antonia_mdprjct There will always be challenges, so responsiveness and adaptability are prerequisites, not bonuses!

Currently approving vendors for a couple of hospitality projects and we’re having the ID comment on the lists. I’m not lying when I tell you: people prefer to work with people that are easy to work with. Some of these vendor recommendations/request to remove vendors are eye-opening. #1 objection — lack of responsiveness. #2 — lack of willingness to resolve challenges. Zero mention of the quality of the goods.

@kilovh Lehavin minyan haberachos from the AR...

Sources: Tannu Rabbanan Mitzvas Ner Chanukah 5738 Kuntres Umaayan (last few discourses) Rabbi Jeremy Kagan's books, summarized in his essay in STRAUSS, SPINOZA, & SINAI - which in turn is based afaik primarily on Maharal, particularly Ner Mitzvah, Tiferes Yisroel

someone dm'd me and asked for me to share some chassidic thought on Chanukah we begin, of course, with adam and eve in the garden of eden:

Rabbi Mendel Kaplan's highly entertaining and super relevant explanation of Chanukah. A must-see for all.

@bentziavtzon He doesn't. He is defining a Nefesh as a life source. Hence the reason you cannot change it (if your Nefesh is from 3 klipos then that's what it is).

@leibels2 Where does the AR here openly discuss difference between yetzer and nefesh

my sense is that the last few lines of perek alef tanya are there because it is *absolutely necessary* at that point to limit the category-breaking the AR is suggesting right before i.e. that every Jew whether Tzaddik or Rosho has both nefoshos Once you make that claim and take it to full conclusion which the AR does you must immediately limit it or all definitions fall to pieces Yes the Rosho has a nefesh elokis and yes the Tzaddik has a nefesh habehamis but it's not because these definitions mean less but precisely because they mean so much more

@bentziavtzon It's not indirect. It brings out the yezer vs Nefesh idea. With Yetzer, we all have the same life source, but different possible pulls. With Nefesh, it's not about pull it's about what are your actions, are they godly or not?

@leibels2 Why is that important here? And why would make such an important point so indirectly

@antonia_mdprjct We do material only and are always signing 🤷🏻‍♂️

Material vendors don’t always issue waivers, but you have to pay them or have credit lines that you have to pay down if you want materials delivered. A sub can have materials delivered and not pay the bill. The best way to ensure they paid the vendors is via a cancelled check and a zero balance invoice.

What if a vendor doesn't provide a lien waiver? You can request an updated invoice showing zero balance and a copy of the cancelled check. This serves the same purpose as a lien waiver (or even better), especially when it is a subcontractor's vendor.

@antonia_mdprjct Extension of #1 is owner's making changes to the design...

#1 reason a project stalls or takes longer than it should? Owner isn't making decisions quickly enough. #2 Owner doesn't pay people in a timely manner.

@mwmoedinger @antonia_mdprjct How do you handle sub contractors?

@antonia_mdprjct "Some contractors haven't updated to the new standard" that was rolled out in 2004 - pretty much the perfect way to encapsulate our industry 🤣 Also yes, this is absolutely the way to ask for estimates, and ensure apples-to-apples.

Project owners often have a tough time leveling estimates or bids because every estimate they receive is in a different format. To solve for this, I always recommend asking for estimates in CSI master format. So, what is ‘CSI master format’? 👇🏼 CSI stands for ‘Construction Specification Institute’ and is exactly what it sounds like. This group issues a document under which every trade is standardized to a specific list. When you request estimates in this format, they should all look very similar. This will save you a lot of time and make it easier to compare apples to apples. Something to know about the standard: it changed in 2004 to make room for more categories. Although some categories were moved around, the new standard generally provides a very similar breakdown. Also, while widely accepted, some contractors haven’t entirely updated their estimates to the new standard. This means you simply have to pay attention to how they number the list after division 13. For big projects, this is the format in which project specs will be issued. Having the budget/bid breakdown in the same standard will help you make an easier connection between the scope described in the project specs and the estimates you receive.

@GrantSlatton @atthatmatt Classic question. Which synagogue or group are your friends affiliated with?

@atthatmatt Every time I go to shabbat with my orthodox friends I propose a new edge case to them and we argue for half the dinner, it's great Last one was "if a non-Jewish embryo is implanted into a Jewish mother, is the baby Jewish?"

met someone who convinced their friends to move to nearby apartments so they could host weekly dinner parties they started also turning off their power at the breaker box once a week to tech detox was like how does it feel to invent orthodox judaism from first principles??

@the_BrianB @DelaneyGillilan Is there an available recording of this?

Super excited for this talk from @DelaneyGillilan about real time hypermedia!