Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Problem solved. Sort of.

I solved the problem of not being able to find a few quarter-inch nuts for a little project I'm doing, by at last finding the nuts. I was ecstatic, but only for a moment. Then I realized I didn't solve the problem by becoming better organized. It's like solving the economic problem by raising somebody else's taxes or by having the government hand out money like we all won the lottery, or some other "feels good" solution. It doesn't solve the problem by figuring out what's really causing the problem, and solving that prior problem.

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