To DIY or Not To? My Analysis of Common DIY Activities

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about why changing your own oil (in your car) is a very overrated activity, and used the economic concept of opportunity cost in order to justify my decision to pay someone else to do it for me. I realized when writing this that it may have sounded…

The Importance of Breadth and Depth: Why Being Well-Rounded Isn't Necessarily Good Enough

When I was in college thinking about what senior electives to take, I recall professors saying "you don't want to be a mile wide and an inch deep, but you also don't want to be an inch wide and a mile deep." The message was pretty clear: don't make yourself too well-rounded because you won't…

Zach Smithwick

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To DIY or Not To? My Analysis of Common DIY Activities

The Importance of Breadth and Depth: Why Being Well-Rounded Isn't Necessarily Good Enough