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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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If only we can break the social media dopamine loop. Underrated in times of isolation, such as these. One challenge with focusing AOTM is our time horizons haven't calibrated sufficiently to the point where project scoping makes any sense. What are some shovel ready ideas?
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I mean I’m one person but I just reabsorbed 25 hours/week of high-intensity childcare and by the time they go to bed I’m cross eyed with tedium & exhaustion. Our nanny will be out half her income if we lay her off but what she’ll do with extra time is not at all the same as me
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