Clean Condo Life: EV Charging Is A Process & An Inevitability
, require a lot of carefully tended agreement among all owners. And EV charging is one of those slow moving challenges.
I didn’t expect moving EV charging into our building, a necessary climate mitigation and condo value requirement, would take as much time and effort as it has. Who knows before they start something novel to them how much time and effort it will take? No one. This is part of the optimism bias and planning fallacy Bent Flyvbjerg talks about in his great book. Regardless of my awareness of cognitive biases around transformation, I was subject to them.
Sound like anyone you know? Sound like your buddy who aspires to tow a big boat to a glistening lake three times a year and buys a massive pickup to do that, despite not having a big boat or six weeks of vacation? Sound like your friend who buys an amazing party outfit despite not having been to an amazing socialite-laden party in their life? Sound like your acquaintance with a crypto wallet?
A bunch of time passed. An annual general meeting was pending. We had to spend some money to figure out what to do. And so, prospect theory again. And we had a bunch of other stuff that we had to do in the building. It was ten years old. We had just gone through the ten-year warranty handover, where everything unfixed became our fiscal problem. We had some money to spend.
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