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The only person who turns 'what if' into 'watch this' with their bare hands.
means A person whose job is to construct buildings or other structures, or more broadly anyone who makes or assembles something piece by piece.
from From 'build' plus the agent suffix '-er' (the one who does the thing). 'Build' itself comes from Old English 'byldan,' to construct a house, rooted in 'bold' meaning a dwelling or home — a cousin of words across the old Germanic tongues for 'to be,' 'to dwell,' 'to abide.' So at its very root, a builder is one who makes a place to be.
- ancient title
- Masons signed cathedrals they'd never see finished
- thumb rule
- Measure twice, cut once, swear repeatedly
- hidden cost
- Renovations always reveal a second, worse problem
- oldest trade
- Predates writing by tens of thousands of years
for instance
elon musk — built tesla gigafactory, spacex starship, and underground tunnel networks via the boring company
gustave eiffel — designed and built the eiffel tower in paris, completed 1889