Construction Curiosities #95
Cutting the Line | No Bobble Heads
Hey! Happy Saturday! Matt here.
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This weekly Newsletter explores the Curiosities of the Construction Industry. It's meant to help Drag the Construction Industry into the 21st Century by making you think, smile, and become motivated to drive innovation in your realm of the industry.
The Newsletter will focus on 4 primary areas of Innovation:
Technology & Tools
Growth Marketing
Upskilling/ Mentorship
Being People First in all of the Above
We won’t hit on each of these topics every week but that’s what is in rotation!
So I missed 2 weeks in a row 😱… Had a couple busy busy weeks. But good weeks.
But WE ARE BACK, BABY!
Did you miss me? Did you even notice?
Summary
This week we will look at:
One Article: Cutting the Line
One Video: No Bobble Heads
One Quote: Easier and Cheaper to Ask
One Meme: Don’t talk to me
One Article
End of the Line? Saudi Arabia ‘forced to scale back’ plans for desert megacity
by The Guardian
It was billed as a glass-walled city of the future, an ambitious centrepiece of the economic plan backed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to transition Saudi Arabia away from oil dependency.
Now, however, plans for the mirror-clad desert metropolis called the Line have been scaled down and the project, which was envisaged to stretch 105 miles is expected to reach just 1.5 miles by 2030.
Dreamed up as a linear city that would eventually be home to about 9 million people on a footprint of just 13 sq miles, the Line is part of a wider Neom project. Now at least one contractor has begun dismissing workers.
105 miles? or 1.5 miles??
I’m getting serious “This is Spinal Tap” Stonehenge vibes.
One Video
This week’s video comes from my buddy Jesse Hernandez.
Know any bobble heads? Are you a bobble head?
Bobble heads are a cancer. They undermine progress.
Don’t be a Bobble Head.
One Quote
Speaking of buddies. This one comes from my buddy from North of the 49th, Angelo Suntres. If you aren’t following him and his “Human Side of Construction” page on Instagram, you are missing out!
He literally wrote the book on the topic!
One Meme
How are you showing up to work each day for your team? Are you Burned Out? Or managing your energy properly?
See y’all next week! ✌
