Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
November – The Rope Swing
When you look at the cartoon above you can see the many ways that communication can fail. I love this cartoon and wish I knew to whom we might attribute it. It’s been around for decades and since the first time I saw...
August – More Roofs Over More Heads
What do Aging in Place, Workforce Housing, and It’s Too Expensive To Live Here all have in common? They all have a common solution: Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU’s for those who like acronyms), the right of a property owner to have an...
July – Remembering Ken
The hardest part of losing someone is when we become acutely aware of how important they are to us and how deep our feelings are for them. This has been said by so many people in so many different ways that you’d figure by now we’d have a...
“You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any way you choose, you're on your own, and you know what you know, and YOU are the one who'll decide where you go.”
Theodore Geisel (Dr, Suess)
May – If . . .
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied...
April – Knowledge: The Doubling Curve
When Buckminster Fuller, the renowned 20th century inventor and visionary, developed the concept of “Knowledge Doubling Curve”, he noticed that up until the year1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World...
March – Dan Vincent
Fifteen years ago, a shy 18 year old who had recently graduated from Tech School, applied for a job with us. He was so shy and of so few words that he didn’t impress anyone initially. He came back the next day, and the day...