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one way I'd love to see our society being more functional: I go to the allergy specialist, and instead of him saying "yup you're allergic, here's a series of 24 shots for the next few years" he would just say, "have you tried buying a roomba" (this is what solved my problem)
whenever I found myself in positions of control/authority, I would do this. I worked at a startup that made pretty cool but niche tools. People would come wanting to buy stuff sometimes the best solution was not our tool, and I'd tell them that.
"you're allergic to cats, we tested you with this cat sample!" "what cat did you get this sample from? is this cat representative of all cats? I seem to be only allergic to some cats, and not others, I don't think this is the root cause?" "you're allergic to cats..."
trying to find relevant themes from this thread to "Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" https://t.co/E7hisaVs32
