about that slight incline...

Noam Chomsky making some sense, my kind of eatery, and the reality of what a better wage for workers would mean in the cost of stuff you buy...

Have you ever noticed how people like to make things difficult for themselves?

Dave Z (of TrioloBoat infamy) recently posted about learning curves and he makes the point that while we may think the whole learning curve is pretty steep, in reality it isn't...

Yesterday I posted over at VolksCruiser about costly inflatables and how DIY dinghies were the solution for most of us. This produced a flurry of folks writing in and telling me that building a dinghy was too difficult for most people and I should cut them some slack.

Building a dinghy is easy and it does not take much in the way of a skill-set. Everything you need to know, including plans, can be found in a single inexpensive book. So, obviously, one has to ask, "what's the problem?"

I see and hear it all the time because people keep telling me stuff is difficult and learning something new is just too hard. Whether it's boatbuilding, celestial navigation, learning how to splice a line, or even sailing, it's the perceived difficulty rather than the reality that's the problematic part.

Or, in Nikespeak...

Just do the damn thing.

Listening to Guy Clark

So it goes...