Chicago interviews need some real energy, not a script.

Oh man, "ruined pour and a massive cleanup" is the absolute worst kind of teacher. It's like the concrete itself is laughing at you while you're shoveling. Susan's foreman had it right with that double check rule, it sounds boring until you're the one staring at a wall of mud where your form used to be. Those old guys have a scary number of stories that all end with "and that's why we do it this way." You only have to live through one of those messes to become a true believer.

Take a day to cool off before you even look at the feedback. Then go through it and pull out the stuff you can actually use to make the thing better.

So that one pivot post, was it totally frozen solid or just kind of gummy? I'm trying to picture how much force you had to use to get it moving before the clean. Did the manual say anything about that post being a common failure point, or was it just a random note?

My buddy's log hit 300 before he started a blog, like mila_harris said.