“Cheaper not to care”

This is the slogan of so many industrial behemoths and existing bureaucracies. It’s in quotation marks for a reason: it’s not true. Not in the long run, not even in the medium run. One way to highlight the hollowness of this edict is to say it out loud. For a while, it might make the

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The hats

You wear a hat, you’re not a hat. State nouns are verbs that we talk about like they are nouns. Hurry, panic, frenzy, rage, funk, stupor, daze, fog, rut, bind, pickle, fix, slump, tailspin, tizzy. Notice that they’re almost all negative… You’re in a hurry. Really? I get that you’re hurrying. There might be good

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