The word “assume” means “to take for granted; suppose.” Most estimating departments are fast-paced environments, which requires the estimator to read many specifications in a short period of time. You ...

Just because something seems unethical, immoral, unnecessary, wasteful or just plain wrong, doesn’t mean it is illegal or against the rules. Further, just because a person disagrees with something — ...

(This the fifth post in a six-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, Part Three here, and Part Four here.) The new question-of-the-week is: What are some of the most common mistakes ...

Retirement is a big question mark for most people. Even with planning, there will be some gray areas and opportunities for making assumptions about what to expect or how far your money will go. One of ...

I’ve been told on many a training day that to assume is to make an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me’. While it’s a cliché, it’s often true. Assumptions help you go from A to C without the middle bit. They ...

Over the past year, it seemed plausible that we had turned the corner, and I optimistically assumed that the pandemic was making its final curtain call. Then came the COVID Omicron BA.1 variant, ...

Have you ever asked yourself if you guess too much? According to the Oxford dictionary, “guessing is the supposition that something is true without sufficient information.” It starts at a young age ...

“Things that were previously held to be sort of unassailable truths are now coming into question,” a16z partner David Ulevitch told me last month. He was making the point that previously uninvestable ...