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Gross domestic product has a whole new meaning. Domestic output is going to grow dramatically, but be mostly unseen in econometrics, so that's a cheery thought. A bit like open-source. We should call this the home-source movement: all the economic value of quarantine projects.
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Drew here for example, is a home-source project engineer who is actively worried that his productivity on his home-source project will fall after the quarantining stuff ends. 🤣
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A counterintuitive fear I have is that the pandemic somehow ends sooner than expected and a month-long party commences before I finish my quarantine projects
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This is NOT lemons from lemonade. This is exploration and creation on the long-neglected Great Indoors frontier. The frontier of projects that need retreat and seclusion to seriously undertake. The projects that benefit from absence of annoying coworkers and meetings.
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Nor is this a retreat to activities traditionally coded as "domestic". I'm not suggesting everybody learn to cook or do household repairs. No. That stuff got sucked into the service economy to a significant degree, and that's a good thing. I'm suggesting doing other things.
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