John Harrison’s timekeepers… were both precise and accurate, but given that they took years to make and perfect, and were the result of hugely costly… Read More »The machine that makes the machine: Simon Winchester on machine tools and the democratisation of precision
The word fragment is often misused to describe anything smaller than a bread box, but an eight-hundred page book is no more complete or unbroken… Read More »Eleph-ant; or, Small but perfectly formed
“… only pausing to remark that many find it unnecessary to fill the mouth to its utmost capacity.” Misquotation of Pip in David Lean’s Great… Read More »More than you can chew
And more. This blog post is brilliant, and asks a lot of key questions about what to do when your project isn’t making money. If… Read More »Resources: Seth Godin on money stuff – cashflow, price, overheads, and finding the right size
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This is the sixth post in a series applying Seth Godin’s rules of bootstrapping (see also here) to building a non-profit organisation. Seth says: Scale is not its own reward.… Read More »Bootstrapping the non-profit organisation Rule 6: Scale is not a Reward