For construction and repair tasks, I would usually need to do some planning and reflection. Work out ahead of time what is needed with some help from Google. Or just hire out the work to someone that is an expert. Anyway, more power to you and your hardware store friends. I don’t feel their absence.
> On Sep 28, 2022, at 11:55 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > And there're other things you don't get from delivery businesses: 1) > socialization and 2) tacit knowledge. When we set up our "office" in an > industrial space in Oregon, the ceilings were very high. We had no real ideas > for how to build the welding barriers and other things. We broached the > problem to the handy dudes at the local hardware store and all 4 of us came > up with an easy and cheap solution. We 1) made some friends 2) with different > knowledge from ours. > > I know such things may not matter to some who are anti-social and/or so > wicked smart they never need anyone else's ideas. But for this less > socialized moron, they're important. > > Amazon is definitely *not* easier or faster at either of those things. > >> On 9/28/22 10:01, Steve Smith wrote: >>> On 9/28/22 10:38 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >>> Amazon is almost always easier and faster than a local business that have >>> thin inventory and higher margins. A local business is a place get COVID. >>> I find I usually order hardware and equipment online from Home Depot >>> because the store inventory is kept thin on purpose (like because it is >>> stolen). This is why Amazon is on top. It is a better way to do business >>> and they are really good at it. >> I still buy from local businesses as much as I can *so they will be there >> when I want/need them*... I also find ordering online and picking up at my >> front door exquisitely more convenient "in the moment", whether it is Amazon >> or Home Depot or Autozone. But then there are those times when I don't want >> to wait a day or three for the plumbing part that gets my bathroom back to >> working and it would really suck if the (Ace) Hardware store run by the >> local pueblo were closed (they closed a *lot* during COVID and during the >> "great resignation" we are still in). >>> >>> Not everyone is a cow. We are selected and self-selected into >>> organizations were our personalities and abilities work. Some are farmers, >>> some are cows. When the cows are left to wander, they get frustrated and >>> call for farmers. Il Duce! >> You sound a lot like John Galt! >> And just to double-down on the "aphorisms": "when you own a cow, the cow >> owns you". I think it goes for golden geese also. And I think maybe Mr. >> Putin is maybe going to get a kick in the teeth by the golden-goose-cow he >> has owned now for 30? years... > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
