Will Nemo

Wondering what tools everyone is using and how they connect their tech stack for one centralized source of truth. What flow do you find most effective and useful for your business?

New comment 3d ago

Will Nemo

2 likes • 7d

From a small shop: the integration problem got smaller when I cut tools, not when I connected them. I shut down most of my SaaS last month and kept one core system as the source of truth. Everything else writes into it or goes. My test: if a tool holds data nobody else can see, it's a leak. Which record do you go hunting for most often across apps: job cost, schedule, or client comms? That usually tells you what the hub should be.

Rei Mezini

24d •

General discussion

Zero construction background: How do I actually learn MEP fast?

Looking straight for advice here. I have a zero-background entry point into construction, and I want to master MEP systems so I can actually run my projects right. I know project management certs won't cover this. Where did you guys actually learn MEP systems? Drop your absolute best course, book, or resource recommendations for a total beginner who needs to speak the language and audit a job site properly. What worked for you?

New comment 7d ago

Will Nemo

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Electrical side, from someone who teaches it: don't start with a course. Start with one building. Get drawings for a job you can actually walk and trace one thing end to end: service, panel, one circuit, one device. Then do the same with one air handler, meaning where its power, controls and ductwork come from. You'll learn the language faster from one system you can touch than from ten modules. And ask the foreman to explain one thing a week. Most will, if you're asking for real.

Tim Fairley

Sep 3 •

General discussion

What do you want to get out of the community (September)?

Hey Everybody, New month! So new goals I know for me, I have had this big realization that AI is just genuinely not that difficult to use. I guess I am very deep in the bubble of people who play with it a ton. But increasingly, I am becoming more convinced that the real skills I want to focus on mastering are my construction management skills. So trying to do more content on construction projects and businesses. The skills that actually matter. The thing I find hard is that AI is such a massive buzzword that any video I do with AI in the title does well. I'm tryin to balance that with the topic that I think really has a huge amount of depth and complexity to it which is Construction. I did this video and was really happy with it. This is more the style of content I want to be doing What are your goals for September?

New comment 5d ago

Will Nemo

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Same realization from the trades side. The AI part is easy to pick up. Knowing what a clean estimate or a sane schedule looks like is the part that takes fifteen years, and the AI only multiplies whatever judgement is already there. My September goal: fewer tools, more reps. The electrical bid you mentioned back in March with the confusing scope, how you decide what's actually being priced, is a video I'd watch.

Will Nemo

17d •

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New here - Red Seal electrician out of northern BC

New to the room. Red Seal construction electrician (309A), fifteen years in the field across northern BC - industrial, wind, remote sites. These days I split my time between industrial controls work and coaching Canadian tradespeople through the Red Seal exam. Most of the guys I work with can wire anything. They freeze on paper. Happy to answer anything on the electrical side - code, controls, troubleshooting - or how the Canadian ticket and apprenticeship system actually works if you have hands you are trying to get certified. Glad to be in the room. Will

New comment 10d ago

New here - Red Seal electrician out of northern BC

Will Nemo

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@Tim Fairley It's the interprovincial written exam that puts the Red Seal endorsement on a provincial trade ticket in Canada. Pass it and your certificate is recognized across provinces and territories, not just the one you apprenticed in. For electricians it's the 309A: multiple choice, mostly code and theory, on a clock. That's the part that trips up guys who are strong on the tools.

Will Nemo

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@Michael MacKrell Both, and they feed each other. The wording is built to punish a field reading, where two answers work on site and only one works under the book. But the bigger killer is what you're describing: no structure, so every question starts from a blank page. The ones who pass run the same routine every time. Read the last line of the question first, decide if it's a lookup or a calc, and move on at 90 seconds. Filling gaps, not producing. Good to have another BC hand in here.

Will Nemo

17d •

General discussion

New here - Red Seal electrician out of northern BC