Best of Week: Kite Runner

This week, I thought the most interesting thing we did was design the TED project.

When I mentioned to my (non- Academy) friends how we'd collaborated, their immediate reaction was "Did you try to make it really easy, because you're gonna' have to do it?"

I would expect this of them, but it still got me thinking.
I told this anecdote:


There was a man, once, who was standing on the street when a man offered him his choice of $5 or $0.25. The man did not hesitate to select the quarter, and shocked, the second man gave it to him.
The next day, the second man told his co-workers of the fool, and they walked to see if there really was someone so stupid. Invariably, the quarter was chosen. Soon, children, adults, and passers-by would all come and gawk, and reward the man $0.25 for his efforts.
The man was no fool at all. If he had asked for $5, certainly, nobody would have given it to him, and he'd never have got all those quarters!


That's wisdom, right there.

I'm glad we get the opportunity to help design the project. Perhaps not looking forward to it, but if you can't have $5, the quarters are better than nothing.