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| resilients:resilient_boating [2013-01-30 02:28] – [Cooking in the sun and soaking in the rain] nik | resilients:resilient_boating [2013-01-30 02:29] – [Bread or china: balancing effort and utility] nik | ||
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| The four layers of utility seem to be: not quite useless, disposable, keep, and treasure. | The four layers of utility seem to be: not quite useless, disposable, keep, and treasure. | ||
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| The two curves on the diagram attempt to show the amount of work needed for something that is useful and disposable versus something that is worth keeping. This probably also has a lot to do with the amount of effort one has already invested, as the first hour of any project hurts a lot more than the hundredth. (A formal analysis here would be straying into the realms of economists and efficiency consultants – for our purposes we can leave them fairly rough-and-ready.) | The two curves on the diagram attempt to show the amount of work needed for something that is useful and disposable versus something that is worth keeping. This probably also has a lot to do with the amount of effort one has already invested, as the first hour of any project hurts a lot more than the hundredth. (A formal analysis here would be straying into the realms of economists and efficiency consultants – for our purposes we can leave them fairly rough-and-ready.) | ||
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