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And then you'll hear people say, "Well, it doesn't really matter where I am, as long as it's early in the morning or late at night or on the weekends."

But businesses are spending all this money on this place called the office, and they're making people go to it all the time, yet people don't do work in the office.

It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits, because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do ... Then you've got 15 minutes, and someone pulls you aside and asks you a question, and before you know it, it's 5 p.m., and you look back on the day, and you realize that you didn't get anything done.

You look back on your day, and you're like, "I got nothing done today.

And this is why people choose to do work at home, or they might go to the office, but they might go to the office really early in the day, or late at night when no one's around, or they stick around after everyone's left, or go in on the weekends, or they get work done on the plane, in the car or in the train, because there are no distractions.

We all have to improve on this sort of thing.

You decide when you want to be distracted by the TV, when you want to turn something on, or when you want to go downstairs or go for a walk.

What the hell is going on here?

That's why people aren't getting work done, because they're on Facebook and Twitter?

Now what's interesting is, if you listen to all the places that people talk about doing work, like at home, in the car, on a plane, late at night, or early in the morning, you don't find managers and meetings.

You can put these things away, and then you can be interrupted on your own schedule, at your own time, when you're available, when you're ready to go again.

So if you're a manager, start encouraging people to use more things like I.M. and email and other things that someone can put away and then get back to you on their own schedule.

Today's Friday, usually people have meetings on Monday.

All these discussions and decisions you thought you had to make at this one time at 9 a.m. on Monday, just forget about them, and things will be fine.

So I had one of those, so I made some low-tech gadgetry, where you just stomp on the shoe last, and then the door flies open and you throw your laundry down.

And then if you're smart enough, it goes on a basket on top of the washer.

Started with the rim, and then glued and nailed it up into a flat, corbeled it up and flipped it over, then did the two profiles on this side.

This is a house based on a Budweiser can.

I just put a can on a copier and kept enlarging it until I got the size I want.

Then, on the can it says, "This is the famous Budweiser beer, we know of no other beer, blah, blah, blah."

And in there, he said cultures tend to swing between one of two perspectives: on the one hand, we have an Apollonian perspective, which is very crisp and premeditated and intellectualized and perfect.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have a Dionysian perspective, which is more given to the passions and intuition, tolerant of organic texture and human gesture.

I got a job for you as a foreman on a framing crew.

So we hired on.

Now there's a blight on the planet.

After a year, you can't get insurance on everything you have in it, only on 70 percent.

I can wipe my mouth on my sleeve, napkin on the table, chew with my mouth open, make little noises, scratch wherever I want.

On the bottom tier, we have basic needs: shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth.

Early on, contractors come by and say, "Dan, you're a cute little bunny, but you know, this just isn't going to work.

First of all, I would like to say that I'm really amazed at how easily kids are led to believe all the marketing and advertising on TV, at public schools and pretty much everywhere else you look.

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