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The Anti-Checklist Manifesto

When we bought our 1940s vintage house, none of the interior doors on the main floor completely closed. I figured out a process: mark the edges where the door scraped the frame, remove the door, remove all hardware and slather with paint remover, carefully plane the door's edges, and reinstall the door with all hardware. I made a checklist for this process: bedroom door, hall closet door, study…

You can have a little fun, as a treat

I took philosophy 101 as a freshman. I memorized the difference between modus tollens and modus ponens and tried to figure out what St Anselm was getting at in his ontological argument. I wrote a straightforward final paper that was worth a B minus and finished the course. I needed 4 credits, I earned them by drudging through 14 weeks of lectures and readings, and satisfied the implicit agreement…