Marilyn Moedinger

Some new followers, so I thought I'd reintroduce myself! I do a bunch of stuff: architecture, consulting, teaching, real estate. Here's what I focus on: 1. I'm an architect, and founder of Runcible Studios, a full service architecture firm based in Boston, MA and Lancaster, PA.

@drgurner Thank you!! I really enjoy it, and it's a meaningful connection back to my Nan

@mwmoedinger Such a cool talent I didn't know you had! (also, it's fun)

My Nan taught me how to do cross stitch when I was little. I still do it - I like having my hands busy. This is my latest, with one of my mottoes: "there is always a way." I started outlining the letters (the T and H) but I don't know if I like it.. What's your vote?

@richmondie Not sure what you're asking! This piece is an original design (by me)...just not sure if I should continue outlining the letters in magenta.

@mwmoedinger I like it a lot! Find another design? Or draft your own?

If you zoom in, you'll see some mistakes. I don't use a kit, I'm figuring it out as I go...sometimes that means I screw up. Nan also taught me that the sign of a good stitcher is a neat back with zero knots 🫡 Just me and another one of my esoteric old-school skills 😅

@antonia_mdprjct @Dirtdog Came here to say this... My favorite was when megachurches were playing it during services...clearly no one was listening closely 😅

@Dirtdog Just don’t let anyone listen to the song too closely 😬

The perfect wake everyone up in the house on Sunday song doesn’t exist…

@ChristineCarril Yeah that sounds awesome!

@mwmoedinger Wow! Look at that gorgeous eagle. What a way to wake up. When I lived in Hawaii, we woke up to surfers in our front yard, or whales. It never stopped taking my breath away.

Good morning from the farm 🦅🇺🇲❤️

@moseskagan So special to share living space with these guys! They are so cool

@mwmoedinger Gorgeous!!!!

We've been part of a Chesapeake Bay Foundation riparian buffer project for about 10 years, taking about 30 acres of wetlands out of pasture use and restoring it. Last weekend we were planting live stakes of native trees and shrubs and chopping down invasives (Bradford pear and multiflora rose are top on our hit list) It's a lot of work and requires aggressive techniques sometimes, but we follow CBF guidance on best practices. Natives are now flourishing here!

@mwmoedinger Same for us, though I think our birding onset was from playing the boardgame Wingspan. Love hearing you are doing habitat restoration. We are doing similar, but have a long road ahead of us (previous owners planted and didn’t mind having a lot of invasives!!!)

@ScottFarbman Yeah we've become amateur birdwatchers around here! We've been doing a lot of habitat restoration too, and are seeing new species - it's really cool

@mwmoedinger Awesome! We recently moved to more land and have been seeing so many awesome birds! A pair of broad shouldered hawks live on our property somewhere. I love it so much !!

@DietCoke82 I feel this!! Everyone thinks they want the truth, but most just want to hear what they want to hear. Makes it hard to see people choose the fairy tale, knowing what's in store for them...

The worst jobs to lose are the ones where I know I was honest & upfront on the challenges the project will face and the client says “we went with the other GC because of his confidence of execution” People don’t like to hear or swallow the bitter pill up front. I one hundred percent guarantee that pill is coming later, right when they least expect it. The cycle continues.

@drgurner @MPrinParr Something I've found worth doing: not getting close with people who don't understand this. "Work" doesn't equal "bad," it means "the effort I put forth to get to my goals/make progress/live a rich life." (At least, in my opinion...)

No one wants to hear it but you will have to *work* on everything that is worth having in life. Your career, your relationships, your health - whatever it is... So if you don't want to work for it, be prepared to be very disappointed in the quality of everything you get.

@acquisizioni It's more like a stew, with big flat egg noodles. This is what we call "chicken pot pie." It's delicious!

@mwmoedinger It’s the worst. I commend you for staying home so you do t get anyone else sick. What is Amish pot pie? Instead of pie crust it’s noodle crust I don’t get it.

I hate being sick. Rescheduling a day full of meetings, "resting" without it being an actual break, falling behind, feeling crappy, etc. Bright side: Amish pot pie [chicken and homemade noodles, not pastry] is a miracle drug, available from neighborhood stands around here♥️

@moseskagan On it 🫡 Related: I'm sick today. Should be in bed. But I'm dealing with several fires and emergencies related to this exact quest. What people who critique "the game" conveniently forget: it is *far* from easy, the sacrifices are real, and the horizon is long.

The game: Efficiently converting your work into ownership of productive assets. (To give you a helpful little hint, they named it "capital-ism".)

@aussieflya That's really interesting! Why architecture specifically?

@mwmoedinger I hope they enjoyed it as well lol I find independent thinkers within the architecture expertise are the best

Sometimes I meet folks who think about everything so differently, I need days to unpack it all. Such was today's early morning meeting about our built environment with architects Britt Johnson & Michael Hansmeyer. Remember their names, great things to come!

@jasonc_nc I mean, yeah, all those secret meetings on the yacht with your milk price fixing cabal...

@mwmoedinger Oligarchs get to influence policy right?

I think you’re onto something

I agree 100%. I'm the queen of esoteric interests, and that has lead to all kinds of fascinating - and genuine - connections. Can't fake being into baroque music or pre-shuttle era NASA or military history or early Italian Renaissance art or whatever other weirdo things...and when you bond over this stuff, a deeper trust forms. If that leads to business, cool. If it doesn't, also cool. Life is too short not to dive into things that light you up!

Going to QT J-chal again, this time not to dunk on him but b/c I think his response is a good excuse to share a mantra I think is *actually* useful. Inauthenticity reeks like Axe body spray. To find your sweet spot socially – both in life & in networking – invest in things that you have a natural affinity for. It'll be much easier to strike meaningful connections this way. Are you naturally a morning person who can be 'on' at a breakfast meeting? By all means, make Pershing Square Diner your second home. But if you're someone who's at their best in the wee hours with a couple bevvies in you, do that instead. I remember once at ICSC, I was with a colleague whose natural wake-up time is 4:30 am, and he's out of commission by 9pm. Rather than both of us be miserable, we did a split-shift approach. He covered the breakfast hangs for deal intel; I hopped from table to table at XS at 1am "grabbing drinks" & getting the good dirt. We crushed it, and it's because we both did our thing. If you're golfing b/c you think you need it to score business, you're NGMI. Everyone on the links can spot that d'bag broker hungry to sell. Instead, though, if you enjoy golf and you are good at it, by all means do it in prime hours. There's a broker I know who's a gifted golfer, someone everyone fights to put into their foursome. He prob golfs more than most people, and during work hours to boot. He was recently in the team that did New York's record office-resi financing, a 700MM+ deal – and this is not some wizard of the capstack – just a likeable, diligent guy who has a killer rolodex from ⛳️ Back to me: I play 🏓. I am rather good at it. This is not a high-glam sport; in fact, it is nerdy AF (at least pre Marty Supreme). I don't care – I love it, and I play it. And in New York, I've had occasion to play the head of a major lender, a 🐐 broker, likely the next CEO of Marcus & Millichap, and even Venus Williams. No one wants to play 🏓 w/ a guy who's doing it explicitly b/c it was a career accelerant. People do want to play with someone who loves the game. So my point is: Instead of fortune-cookie rules that are one-size-fits-all, think of following the general principle that you should invest your networking time in ways and on things that feel right to you. And the career rewards will flow from that.

@KerryHale17 Step 1: be independently wealthy Step 2: open your jazz bar!

@mwmoedinger I desperately want to open a real jazz bar in my little mountain town, but having zero experience in the hospitality industry other than design, I’m smart enough to know what I don’t know.

Sitting at this old school bar at the moment, I can identify at least 90% of the Big Band and mid century jazz songs playing on their playlist. Some people will think this is super cool, and the rest of you, I don't care about...!