Several times in previous columns (e.g. The Noblest of Trades, 09.24.2022) I have tried to express, probably too pompously, that land surveying (and…
Author: Angus W. Stocking
05.11.2025
Pragmatic Mystic
Christopher Alexander’s Vision of a Living World
In 2005 I reviewed the first two books of architect Christopher Alexander’s four-book magnum opus, The Nature of Order in two columns—Life, the…
08.12.2023
Custodians of Civilization
“As humans, we are historically biased against maintenance, and yet that is exactly what infrastructure needs,” according to UCLA archaeologist Monica L. Smith,…
06.10.2023
Carlson Software Part II: Competing as a Means of Contributing
Carlson Software has a Motto: “It’s Up to Us”
Part one of this interview with Bruce Carlson covered the early days, when he was just getting started in software and included stories…
04.16.2023
Carlson Software: Independence + Innovation – Part 1
Steady Wins the Race
Us pioneers who were surveying in the 80s recognized those years as a heady time even as they were happening, as EDMs and…
