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You may or may not know this about me—depending on how long you’ve been reading this newsletter or following me on Twitter—but outside of my moonlighting as a writer, I’m a practicing architect.

There’s a lot of misconceptions about what architects do, and I think that’s largely due to the prevalence of architect characters in popular media. It’s a job that sounds vaguely interesting without a lot of baggage, so if you’re writing a sitcom or romantic comedy, it’s easy enough to take your lead and say “uh, they’re an architect”, shove a roll of drawings under their arm, and call it a day.

This is a still from the middling 2006 romantic comedy “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (Rotten Tomatoes rating: 40%), and though the movie was not great, I actually once worked in the office where it was filmed. So at least it looks accurate.

This isn’t a complaint, per se, nor does it make the career terribly unique—I laugh at those memes of “what people think I do/what I actually do”, because the truth of the…