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We also succumb to block practice because it’s easy and makes us feel good. Who wouldn’t perform an act better or more comfortably after twenty repetitions?

Your Short Game Solution

James Sieckmann, David Denunzio, and Greg Rose

When a company understands the jobs that arise in people’s lives, and then develops products and the accompanying experiences required in purchasing and using the product to do the job perfectly, it causes customers to instinctively “pull” the product into their lives whenever the job arises.

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

The Great Central Valley is drained by two principal rivers, one flowing south and the other north. They meet in the valley and discharge themselves together into San Francisco Bay. The north-flowing river is the San Joaquin. The south-flowing river is the Sacramento, with its tributary the Feather River, which is dammed to reserve the snowmelt of the Sierra Nevada, not only to flood the rice fields and irrigate the other crops of the valley but also to travel six hundred miles in a life-support tube that is taped to the nose of Los Angeles. Rivers with common deltas are rare in the world. It would be difficult to name more pairs of them than the Kennebec and the Androscoggin, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, the Tigris and the Euphrates, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin.

Assembling California

John McPhee

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