Sat.May 28, 2022

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Making It

Alan Weiss

With everyone yapping about inflation and supply chain shortages and the sky is falling, maybe we need to have a different philosophy from “scarcity.” How about, say, “abundance”? One technique: When you have an expense that’s unexpected or quite high, don’t ask yourself where you will “take” the money from (checking, savings, investments, under the mattress).

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Craft and imperfection

Seth Godin Blog

As soon as we mechanize, measure and perfect something, it becomes far less interesting. There’s not a lot of discussion about which factory made your can of Coke, because they’re all the same. Implicit in the desire to have something handmade is that while it might be better than what you’re used to, it might be worse. As we get better at industrialism, the variability of imperfection becomes even more fascinating.