To start, I know that this is a different movie franchise than we’ve named our next episode after, but I’m more of a Star Wars nerd than a Trekkie and the theme of this blog fits this scene better anyway. I started to think about this post the week before last and was noodling on it while on vacation with the family in East Tennessee. With no phone service and no internet, it was easy to turn off the worries of all my data being stolen that built up after our last episode. So I’m going to spit out the thoughts that I loosely put together while hiking through the Appalachian Mountains this past week. Hopefully they come out as clear as the air and water.

The seed for this came from a post on LinkedIn by Kyle Snyder calling it my (Travis) podcast. I’m thrilled he found the episode and us valuable enough to share with his network, but it got me thinking again of how we got to where we are.

That’s where this scene comes back into play. The Construction DorkCast has hijacked the Dork moniker that applies to many of us across this industry. If you go back to our third episode, DJ gets the credit for naming us all on The ConTech Crew. It’s a title we’ve all embraced and run with. Some more than others.

What I’m trying to get at is I am not the Construction Dork. We are not the Construction Dorks. This title should be worn like a badge of honor by scores of Con Techies fighting the good fight across the world to bring construction firmly and irreversibly into the digital age. In that sense, we are indeed the dorks, but I want to welcome others to stand up. To shout it out. To be counted.

This is your community. It is one we have created a blog and podcast to represent, but we do it with great honor, deep reverence, and immense respect. We do our very best to protect the image and ideals of the dork community. We are merely a small part of it all. Doing our best to represent our band of nerds, share information, and have a few laughs.

All that said, I’d like to see just how many of you count yourself among the Dorks. I am asking that you fill out the form below and create a post on LinkedIn or Twitter with a video stating your name and that you are indeed a Construction Dork. Add the hashtag ConstructionDorks and we will do our very best to repost and share. Let’s get this community even bigger and stronger. Let’s connect new dorks with old dorks. Make new friends. Figure out how to best digitally network and share during the times of the Rona.