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cjensen(at)dts9000.com Guest
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question |
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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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nuckollsr(at)cox.net Guest
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:57 am Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question |
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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
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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 Guest
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question |
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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 Guest
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:55 am Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question |
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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 Guest
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:08 am Post subject: To buy or not to buy, that is the question |
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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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