It was very fulfilling to bounce around in Florence and hook up with people in my industry. Everyone seems to have a different angle on what’s not working in the way we’re approaching the digitisation of the construction sector — from norms to interoperability to the educational system — and everyone seems to have a different idea on how to fix it.
We definitely don’t have a plan — we might have 12% of a plan — but we surely have people who are willing and able to organise a discussion around one.
Which is never obvious. The community is rich and vibrant, even after all these years.
Pisa… was a different story. Uncertainties, people looking for guidance, debunking myths like it’s 2012. Young people are curious and they think out of the box, though, which is always promising.
My last stop was Follonica, where a colleague of mine lives, the longest and most fruitful of the three stops.
I believe some turning points – in life and business alike – require the clarity that only detachment and reimmersion can give you. Visiting new places and revisiting familiar ones, touching base with somebody that you used to know, retracing steps with people who have been with you since the very beginning of this whole accursed affair. Removing the laurel from around the cherry tree, as a friend recently told me. Apparently ,it only brings mosquitoes and it’s not worthy of its Sunday roast.
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