Being a slacker at work

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The goal of a great career, the goal of really powerful people, is to work as intensely as they can for the shortest amount of time possible. That's what you want to do.

This is my book! But, it's too much work putting out a book, so I don't think this guy is a real slacker, he just pretends to be. I always found that people who worked every second were pretty dumb. I always found ways to do a tenth the work, and then just flow like I was everyone else!

And at the end, I felt I earned more than Bill Gates, normalized by income per time worked!

Belfast Tunnel

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The city was built on a material known as Belfast sleech — a complex mixture of sand, gravel and boulder clay that has caused serious headaches for the team building the Belfast Sewer Project.

Now, that's some serious tunnel work! Only one minor collapse, and they haven't yet stopped to demand more money!

A Radioactive Pickle

"You start with the world where you and I are getting an exposure from the sun, from the soil we walk on, from the brick in our house that on average is about 400 millirems a year -- which is dangerous," said Tom Lenhart, a former member of the federal-state Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards. "The EPA would never allow that kind of exposure. So you are starting from a baseline of dangerous exposure, and this is what makes regulating it a nightmare."

We can't live.....

Seriously, if you cut down the standards to ridiculously low levels, you can't do anything. I mean, you can't dig this stuff and dump it somewhere! Of course, the natural gas would displace coal, which throws out more radiation than Port Hope!