Everybody should be familiar with the ant and the grasshopper fable. If not, let me briefly summarize it: There’s an ant and a grasshopper. The ant works hard preparing for winter. The grasshopper does not. When winter comes, the grasshopper is cold and starving. What the ant decides after that depends on the version of [...]

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Most of the misunderstandings concerning productivity appear because productivity gurus measure productivity with time as the variable. If only we could manage time more effectively, we would get more things done, the thinking goes. This is true insofar that one is doing piecework where each actions takes a certain amount of time so that work [...]

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I would like to get into hobby metal working and precision maching, building small engines, replacement parts for the RV, restoring old clocks or sewing machines, etc. I prefer to buy things used because it is cheaper, wastes less resources, and I don’t take the “driving it off the lot”-depreciation hit, should I ever want [...]

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