Daniel Davis
drdanieldavis.bsky.social
Daniel Davis
@drdanieldavis.bsky.social
Workplace researcher at Hassell // danieldavis.com
While paying ADSK 1k per seat annually and sucking up a 40% subscription hike just because 🙄
August 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
And this is part of their solution: "mkBoom fully automates whole aircraft level design analysis, including weights, propulsion, and aerodynamics. We can literally define an airplane parametrically in a configuration file and press a button."
August 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"If something changes, re-running analyses becomes expensive and time-consuming, severely limiting the ability to iterate rapidly." (which sounds so much like architecture!)
August 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The architect is unnamed in the article, but the software is not.
June 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The full monstrosity is here: publications.knightfrank.com/your-space/2... What kills me is that they clearly put time (and money) into creating this this. What happened?
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June 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
These cubes are definitely not to scale. And you can't even read this graph without the table. Edward Tufte is weeping.
June 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Bars are all different sizes, and make it 3d for absolutely no reason.
June 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
But I also wonder if their classifiers are mislabeling discussions about software architecture and software engineering as being about the built environment...
February 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It also takes these companies 23% longer to hire a replacement 😬
December 19, 2024 at 3:59 PM
They also see an inverse relationship between office attendance requirements and actual usage. In other words, companies with low utilization are the ones most likely to introduce a mandate. So if you see a company introducing a mandate, it's really a sign that their workplace is in trouble.
November 25, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Meanwhile in America
November 21, 2024 at 7:17 PM