Accumulate Value

Are Easier To Build Than Maintain

Are Easier To Maintain Than Rebuild

Become Harder To Replace

Become More Valuable When Shared

Become Themselves Through Use

Become Visible Through Use

Collect Dust

Convert Knowledge Into Action

Create Freedom

Create Optionality

Create Resilience

Decay Through Neglect

Depend On Being Renewed

Depend On Maintenance

Depend On Quality More Than Timing

Exist To Be Tested

Improve By Being Passed Along

Improve Through Friction

Improve Through Repetition

Invite Stewardship

Make The Future Reachable

Need Cultivation

Need Recovery

Need Renewal

Only Feel Like Winning Afterward

Punish Neglect

Quietly Decide Futures

Quietly Hold The Future

Reward Commitment

Reward Investment

Reward Maintenance

Reward Patience

Reward Renewal

Reward Reuse

Reward Stewardship

Rust

Turn Resources Into Wealth

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Skill is less important than awareness. (Graham Collier)

is not just a specific technique one learns through the body, but involves the capabilities of a whole organic being (i.e. Mind body mesh + environment).

not just as the specific techniques one learns through the body, but as something larger: 'the capabilities of action and perception of the whole organic being (indissolubly mind and body) situated in a richly structured environment.' In such a formulation, our social and artistic relations are determined by the Vikings were by culture by the larger 'emergent outcomes of environmentally situated developmental processes.' (186)

's lack is proved by any use of tricks and treachery.

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is craftsmanship when it is without imagination (giving us wickerwork picnic baskets), just as imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard

is able to recruit even its opponents to its cause. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

is able to throw more weight than strength.

is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

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