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cjensen(at)dts9000.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question

Bob wrote...

   Not rambling thoughts but critical design review.

   I don't know how many builders have written or called

   about sources for materials to accomplish some portion

   of their project DIY. I always try to ask, "Are you

   doing this because you WANT to learn how it's done

   and enjoy doing it for the experience . . . or is it

   to save money."



   More often than not, the answer is, "to save money".

   I've come to realize that our rudimentary commodity

   of exchange is $time$ . . . and when one considers

   the total cost of acquisition and ownership in terms

   of total $time$, they quite often find that it would

   have been better to spend their $time$ acquiring

   cash at something they're good at than to spend more

   $time$ in an attempt to get something new done right

   the first time.



As usual, Bob has succinctly assessed the problem.  If I looks at a

project or item and decide that "I can't build it for that" then it

seems far better to expend money than time--unless one undertakes it as

an educational endeavor and not to save money.  If we value our time

very highly (which we must not or we wouldn't be building airplanes!),

then with an embarrassingly high frequency, it truly is cheaper to buy

it then build it.



Chuck

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nuckollsr(at)cox.net
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:57 am Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question

At 08:04 AM 1/30/2007 +0200, you wrote:

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Dave, apparently the folks at Google have the same philosophy, right down to

sleeping facilities!



Bobv

A35 Bonanza


	


   I'd heard that before. Is there a link to something on the 'net

   that might talk about it?



   Bob . . .

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rvbuilder(at)sausen.net
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question

Try http://www.google.com/corporate/culture.html.  Google has a very

open attitude with their employees and follow the old mantra that a

happy employee is a productive employee.  They even allow employees to

spend something like 10-20% of their time on their own pet projects

while on the clock.  They are so popular now that they recently designed

a custom algorithm to weed down the 100,000+ applications they get a

year by trying to determine if they will fit in Google's culture before

even bothering to look at their qualifications.  Me, I work at a company

that is more like Google's Bizzaro.  Heh



Do not archive



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bonanza(at)vodamail.co.za
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:55 am Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question

I caught the last bit of a TV programme about how they operate....couple of

months ago now! 



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john(at)ballofshame.com
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:08 am Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question

When your goal is to get it done, I always tell my engineers the same thing:



"Don't build what you can buy, and don't buy what you can steal".



It's very rare I can resolve a problem more effeciently than purchasing 

someone else's canned, tested and mass produced solution.  I tell them 

to let other companies concentrate on the support widgets...we'll 

concentrate on the REAL problems.



-John

www.ballofshame.com



Chuck Jensen wrote:

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 Bob wrote...

    Not rambling thoughts but critical design review.

    I don't know how many builders have written or called

    about sources for materials to accomplish some portion

    of their project DIY. I always try to ask, "Are you

    doing this because you WANT to learn how it's done

    and enjoy doing it for the experience . . . or is it

    to save money."



    More often than not, the answer is, "to save money".

    I've come to realize that our rudimentary commodity

    of exchange is $time$ . . . and when one considers

    the total cost of acquisition and ownership in terms

    of total $time$, they quite often find that it would

    have been better to spend their $time$ acquiring

    cash at something they're good at than to spend more

    $time$ in an attempt to get something new done right

    the first time.



 As usual, Bob has succinctly assessed the problem.  If I looks at a

 project or item and decide that "I can't build it for that" then it

 seems far better to expend money than time--unless one undertakes it as

 an educational endeavor and not to save money.  If we value our time

 very highly (which we must not or we wouldn't be building airplanes!),

 then with an embarrassingly high frequency, it truly is cheaper to buy

 it then build it.



 Chuck

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