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What it is like to do a job well, or badly, for a long time.

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The worst note I ever gave was four words long, and it took a mail carrier eleven months to survive it.

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Nineteen years of night shifts, and what I have learned not to trust at that hour.

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Hull shape is a list of things you have agreed to give up, and I once gave up the wrong one by five inches.

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What I learned about choosing tools from one payroll file, nineteen spare minutes, and a forum post that said “nvm.”

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I missed a stuffed monkey three times in front of 640 students, and it was the best lab I ever taught.

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Twelve years of outages looked strange one at a time and not at all strange stacked in a spreadsheet.

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I paid a young man six hundred and eighty dollars to plane thirty-eight dollars’ worth of oak.

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