Jun 28, 2026 · 1 hr · 13 segments
In episode 204, “Character Development - Revisited,” we go back to the beginning and revisit the very first Life of an Architect podcast episode. Episode 001 was mostly an introduction: who we were…
Andrew HawkinsHost
But I got it when you explained the idea, the premise behind it, it was that we were maybe too similar to be doing this, and that was the reason for the choice.
But thought it was gonna be more of a, I don't know how you wanna call it, mentor/mentee, teacher, where it was gonna be, like, you explaining things and Landon giving this inexperienced maybe position or understanding of things, and there was gonna be that dialogue of old master and young student kinda thing.
... that's kinda what I thought, and that was how you explained it to me a little bit and what it was.
Landon Williams, who was, I guess, technically he was my employee at the time, was fresh out of school, and so we had different tinted glasses to talk about anything.
And not because he doesn't have opinions, but he didn't have much to work with at that point from an experience standpoint.
But the other side of that, part of the reason Landon was there, and I actually went back to listen to the very first episode.
And even in that episode, I kinda mentioned part of the reason Landon became a consideration for that first episode was he and I were doing a project that was about a four-and-a-half-hour drive away from the office, and we would do day trips.
So we would drive down there, have, like, two hours worth of meetings, and then drive back.
But I got it when you explained the idea, the premise behind it, it was that we were maybe too similar to be doing this, and that was the reason for the choice.
But thought it was gonna be more of a, I don't know how you wanna call it, mentor/mentee, teacher, where it was gonna be, like, you explaining things and Landon giving this inexperienced maybe position or understanding of things, and there was gonna be that dialogue of old master and young student kinda thing.
... that's kinda what I thought, and that was how you explained it to me a little bit and what it was.
Landon Williams, who was, I guess, technically he was my employee at the time, was fresh out of school, and so we had different tinted glasses to talk about anything.
And not because he doesn't have opinions, but he didn't have much to work with at that point from an experience standpoint.
But the other side of that, part of the reason Landon was there, and I actually went back to listen to the very first episode.
And even in that episode, I kinda mentioned part of the reason Landon became a consideration for that first episode was he and I were doing a project that was about a four-and-a-half-hour drive away from the office, and we would do day trips.
So we would drive down there, have, like, two hours worth of meetings, and then drive back.
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