Trent H. was the first of several readers to mention this: Second Act: Jay Shafer; Ten years ago, Jay Shafer downsized to an 89-square-foot house and reinvented both his lifestyle and career in the process. Not much room for storage food, but this illustrates that minimalism has its advantages.
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Paul B. sent us a link to some more Gibbonesque
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SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large Michael Z. Williamson sent this piece about some implications of deferred maintenance, parts obsolescence, tight budgets, and lean “Just In Time” spare parts inventories: The U.S. Navy And Internal Rot. Mike asks: “What were these morons thinking? Or, more precisely punctuated: What, were these morons thinking?”