ABOUT

Hey everyone. I'm David.

I'm a residential construction superintendent in North Carolina, currently managing around 25 homes a year as part of a small family construction company that builds roughly 70 annually.

If you're in the industry too, you know most days involve solving problems nobody planned for, chasing subcontractors, and pretending the schedule still means something while convincing yourself nothing is actively on fire.

I started The Stupidintendent because construction media mostly falls into three categories:

• Corporate buzzword soup that reads like I accidentally took too much melatonin
• Content built for commercial supers and PMs, which, to be fair, is a completely different animal and deserving of a lot of respect, but residential construction comes with its own special kind of chaos and significantly fewer HR meetings
• Jobsite memes with absolutely zero substance

There's just not a whole lot out there for people on the residential side of things.

I'm not pretending to have all the answers either. I'm a licensed GC and still somehow manage to measure short every now and then like the rest of us.

Most of this job is just seeing the problem before it becomes one. And the problems we don't see? We somehow come up with creative ways to solve them on huge time crunches while pretending this was the plan all along.

This newsletter is my attempt to make the job a little more useful, and a little more tolerable.

Every Friday morning, you'll get a quick read for residential construction people. It's not the same five things every week. Some weeks it's a lesson from the field. Some weeks it's a market update on lumber, mortgage rates, or gas. Some weeks it's a code reference that actually matters, or a jobsite disaster somebody sent me a photo of. The content changes based on what's actually worth writing about that week, not a template I'm forcing content into.

What doesn't change:

• One real story or lesson worth your five minutes
• Jobsite numbers or absurdity that'll make you feel better about your own week
• A quick poll so I know if it landed

No corporate speak. No fake guru nonsense. No "10X your leadership mindset" garbage.

Just practical stuff, jobsite therapy, and a few laughs from someone doing the same work you are.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, subscribe below.

See you Friday.

— David