I met quite a few people on the road and they are all interesting. But there are two groups that give me a little inspiration. The first is a Danish-Spanish guy who is living with his Italian wife in Mantua. We talked on the train. He just quited from his own packaging company and planning to start again solo. I liked his business/sales attitude that is to sell a succesfull product you need to be able to sell yourself first. That's a lot of what we do too, or what we need to do if start our own practice, right? The second group is my recent roommates two architecture students from Norway. So they are probably four years younger than me. They were in Vienna to visit a site for the competition they were doing. I chatted with them about many intereting things and learned something about the Norwegian school system. Once you graduate from architecture school there you are immedietly licensed for Level 1 Architect and allowed to do small scale projects. Not like in the US where you have to go through the exam and licensing process. One great thing they are trying to do though is to push the limit of that and trying to figure out a way that make it legal and safe for student to do real projects. Those projects are small scale projects that do not fit the economy of an office. Isn’t that a good idea for training young architects. Students are already doing it there but illegally. Just before our conversation they already found and were working with a ‘customer’. But they were a little disappointed because they just got an email from that ‘customer’ that he already found other architect. It’s like a punch in the face, one of them said to me. But that punch and a few more down the road I think will make them strong, I think. That is an inspiration. Thanks guys! Thanks for the Linies too.