{"id":7485,"date":"2016-04-18T19:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T04:48:21","slug":"hack-tricks-treats-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/hack-tricks-treats-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Hack? Tricks, Treats or Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Is it just me, or are you seeing more and more people posting about “life hacks” and “tricks” to magically get around problems and situations of every imaginable sort? What are your favourites? One of mine is about how to open a can of food if you don’t happen to have a can opener<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Of course, most of us would have heard about how, during the days of the space race, the Americans spent tons of money producing a pen which could write even in zero gravity, while the Russians used a pencil.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Then there’s the story about how an empty soap box got into a supermarket and got sold to a customer. The response to the customer complaint was, of course, to set up very costly X-ray equipment at the end of the production line so that empty or partially-filled soap boxes could be detected and removed before they ended up on supermarket shelves. What happened? The X-ray equipment broke down one day, but the workers still had to ensure that no empty soap box went undetected. So what did they do? Used a fan to blow empty soap boxes off the line, of course!<\/span><\/p>\n These are simple examples of “hacks” which are actually creative approaches to solving problems. I have absolutely no beef with that, I’m a big fan of creativity and encourage it wherever I can. What I would like to do is make sure I am aligned with universal, non-negotiable principles, and not circumvent them, fall short of their fulfillment, or take these principles to the extreme when applying them.<\/span><\/p>\nTricks?<\/span><\/h1>\n