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I had a college professor who did engineering consulting. A brand new office tower in Boston had a serious problem–there was a brown stain coming through the drywall, all of the drywall no matter how much stain killer they used. In a forty story building, if you have to rip out all the drywall, this is a multi-million dollar disaster. They had exhausted all possibilities and were a day away from tearing out everything and taking a loss. They hired Henry in a last-ditch effort to solve the problem. He looked at the walls and said, “I think I can work out a solution, but it will cost you $45,000 if I succeed.” They instantly signed on, because if he succeeded, the project would be saved.

Henry asked for a pencil and paper and wrote the name of a common hardware store chemical and handed it to them. “Here, this will work.” And then he billed them $45,000. Thats quite an hourly wage. Its also quite a bargain.

via Seths Blog: Hourly work vs. linchpin work.

Chef Nix’ made yummy “chicken piccata” for dinner
:drool:

初めて聞いたんですけど、今日シェフNixがチキンピカタを作ってくれた。
なまらうまい！

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