This editorial from my friend and former boss Rick Schwolsky is as relevant today as it was nine years ago when he wrote it.
Rick was a real builder. He could sling together a typical house with trusses, a custom home with sick details, a timber frame or—and I’m not making this up—install the solar panel system on The White House before the word “green” was even a thing.
And, he used to cut crown molding on the table saw. True story. Not sure how he did that, but that’s what he tells me.
Anyway, Rick has a way of linking thoughts about work and staying competitive but somehow little secrets about living a better Life find their way in. And this editorial—100% about work, about spending just a few minutes to take your ground-into-hamburger-meat nose off the grindstone for, like, 20 seconds—is one of them.
It’ll take only a minute or two to read.
If you’re someone who needs a mentor, if you’re alone out there in your pick-up truck trying to piece together a solid craft and a solid business, or are leading other workers in dangerous work and feeling like you’re faking it till you’re making it, Rick is worth listening to.