Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
What You Want Isn’t Always What You Need
How many times do we, or our homeowner clients, look at one aspect of a situation without considering the whole picture? A perfect example is one I ran across in which a builder asked me to review a disclaimer he had written. The homeowner...
Remembering Troy
Two weeks ago, we lost a great friend and 19 year Shepley employee to a battle with cancer. Troy Towne worked for us on Nantucket starting back in 2000, when he was our only delivery driver. Troy seemed to know every single person on...
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day is coming up next week on February 2nd. I got an invitation to give a talk to the senior class at my son’s college on that very day. As soon as I checked the date to see if it worked, I knew what I was going to speak about. I...
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.”
Dee Ward Hock, founder and former CEO of the Visa credit card association
It’s Our Duty
The US and Canada, although neighbors and friendly in a number of regards, have had a contentious relationship over softwood lumber exports from Canada to the US for many years dating back as far as the 18th century. Softwood lumber...
You Get What You Inspect, Not What You Expect!
In Moscow during World War 2, there lived a university statistics professor. During air raids, he was known by his friends never to bother with air raid shelters. By his calculations, the odds were minute that he would ever be killed by a...
The Good Old Days
July marked the 40th anniversary of Shepley. What an interesting milestone! At 40, we are supposed to be old enough to know better but young enough to live our dreams. Mentally I still have myself pegged at 35. Our sons...