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Work and Workflow

A bricklayer in 1890 laying a course of common brick stooped to the pile at his feet, picked up a brick, turned it over to find the better face, tapped it to knock off loose mortar, and carried it up […]

On Purpose of Writing

On high ground above tree line, trails are often marked by cairns: small stacks of stones, one in sight of next, trails leading across rock where no path wears into the ground. Nobody knows who are their builders. A hiker […]

Forms of Luddism

In 1492 the abbot of Sponheim, Johannes Trithemius, wrote a treatise called In Praise of Scribes. Monks, he argued, should keep copying books by hand even though the new presses could produce them faster. Copying was devotion. A scribe meditated […]

Essential Differences Between Transaction Tax and Property Tax

In 1569 the Duke of Alba, governing the Netherlands for Philip II, asked the States General for three new taxes. The first, the Hundredth Penny, was a one-time levy of one percent on all property. The second, the Twentieth Penny, […]