Episode 032 - Jerico Prater

Jerico Prater, Studio Design Technology Manager at Woods Bagot, joins us on the podcast to talk titles vs. roles, implementing agile workflows in architecture, Zach demos his Bjorn laptop idea, and Brian records all of his 'bits' for posterity.

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Show Notes:

1. Let the rhythm take you over

2. How to warm up your voice

3. Material ConneXion is a members-only materials showroom in NYC

4. Jerico Prater is the Design Technology Manager at Woods Bagot

5. Formerly Gensler and CASE and some other stuff, too

6. Arguably the greatest FEMALE architect of her generation

   1. More on this

7. Zach is never in the moment

8. Samuel L Jackson plays the same character in every movie

9. Jerico gives this podcast a B/B-

10. That’s what she said

11. Brian is a master debater

12. After a frustrating day of Dynamo the conclusion is to bring Don Rudder in for a Revit API workshop

13. Dynamo needs a C# scripting node - but that’s what Zero-Touch is for

14. Woods Bagot tricked Andrew Heumann into living in Dubai for April Fools Day

    1. Some other pranks:

       1. Google mic drop

       2. IFC categories in Revit

       3. Flux for MS Paint

15. Getting rid of “assigned seating” at work

16. Zach’s idea for a mobile computing unit aka “laptop bjorn”

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17. CORE Studio AEC Technology Hackathon 2015

18. Designalyze interviewed Flux’s Jen Carlile and Kieran Timberlake’s Billy Faircloth at the Design Modeling Symposium in Copenhagen

19. Hire people to tell you what to do (this actually was a Steve Jobs quote for once)

20. Tim Dumatrait is our MIA fact-checker if anyone has seen him please let us know that he’s okay

    1. He was last seen at Popeye’s

21. It’s Skyline Time

22. Make sure to include a tiger in your Tinder pic

23. Best apps to send dick pics

24. Brian working on his bit list

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25. Brian’s alias is Cool Sex Falcon or Cool Sex for short

26. BIM is so much more than Revit

27. Job titles aren’t important

    1. Job titles are important

    2. These job titles are total bullshit

28. Should there be BIM Managers?

29. The patriarchy dies hard, not to be confused with Die Hard patriarchy

    1. Die Hard is racist

30. The empirical relationship between arousal and performance

31. The right person in the wrong position

32. Education doesn’t end with school - companies ought to invest in employee development

33. Asking the right questions at work

34. Meetings don’t suck, we suck at running them

35. The difference between a maker’s schedule and a manager’s schedule

36. DIY career advancement

37. What the hell is a junior architect?

    1. AIA best-practice architecture titles

    2. What the hell is Junior?

38. When to let people fail

39. Jerico is currently piloting a number of project management techniques including:

    1. Project Slack channel

    2. Project Trello boards

       1. Testing the Proving Ground’s work with platform-integrated Trello

    3. Agile workflow

40. JIRA vs Trello

41. DISCLAIMER: The Michael McCune call-in was an uncompensated voice actor

42. Synchronized vomiting

43. People love it when you compare your cats to their children

44. Moby vs. Ergo

45. Babies come out of ladies’ butts

46. /gif Miley Cyrus chicken

47. My neck, my back

48. Giphy vs RightGIF

49. Topologically a waffle is a pancake

Lightning round:

1. What book(s) are you reading (to your kids)?

   • Dr. Seuss

   • Grimm’s Fairy Tales

   • Creaturepedia

   • Human Body Factory

   • The Day the Crayons Quit

2. What book(s) are you reading?

   • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink

3. What music are you listening to?

   • Rufus Wainwright

   • Beastie Boys

   • Gorillaz

   • Violent Femmes

4. If you could have a tea party…

   • “I don’t like tea parties”

5. Who is Banksy?

   • Probably an old man

   • Scientists have used data from the Designalyze podcast lightning round to reveal Banksy’s identity

   • Brian and Zach are Banksy

6. WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE???!!! In one sentence.

   • “I don’t think it matters”