The Small Stuff

Well said well done

-- GO DAWGS!

That just sounds so … organized! ;-)

And so true. Nice blog.

-- Making scrap with zen-like precision - Woodbutchery

David,

An excellent submission which may or may not have far-reaching implications than you or I, or perjaps any of us thought.

Please permit a quick background: I was born dirt poor in NYC Manhattan, and into a fractured family. In short, to this day I do not know who my father was. Mom’s signature was as a beautiful woman who wound up as superintentant of two six-story apartment buildings. She was attentive to eveyone, including the needs of the garbage cans (there were at least twenty-four cans) to be lined up properly so the sanitation men could take the cans quick and clean. There was not one of the multi-ethnic familes that did not love Mom. Talk about a rich mosaic, we had it all. Name it, we had it. Wonderful hard working families. They all took care of the details. Perhaps long before details were “details.”

I never to this day graduated high school as I had to get a job to support Mom and myself.

For more than thirty years in my commercial printing business we’ve always sweated the small stuff.

Somewhere along the line we subscribed to “god is in the details.”
It was most important and helped us commericialy.

And stepped up further the detail to making our shop functional, safe, and beautiful.

Great post David—-How true!

Thanks

-- She thought I hung the moon--now she just thinks I did it wrong

Could not agree more David. The more our vision clears the closer we get to the details and the more we understand their significance.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Very well said, David you write very well. I even agree with most of what you wrote, but I won’t argue with you, we can do that anytime over COFFEE! By the way, we drank much more coffee than beer, my wife had to go out in the freezing cold to get me more the next day, nah, just kidding, she did mention how much coffee we drank. So if you want to bring something next time make it coffee, OK? Or donuts would be good, screw the Dr. Don’t suppose she reads this does she?

-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan -

Thanks for the comments everyone. Some of my views are probably inspired by going to so many meetings before a system upgrade or system downtime and being poo poo’ed over my concern of some minor detail or another. And I would say that 9 times out of 10, any issues that occurred was related to the small detail, the insignificant thing that no one wanted to worry about because we do not “Sweat the Small Stuff.”

Pineintheash – Thank you for sharing your background. It sounds like your mother had a great mind for detail and it sounds like you had a neighborhood rich in culture and integrity that served you well in life. Education is education, whether it comes with a piece of paper or not. It sounds like you received much knowledge growing up that was equally, if not more beneficial than the high school education you might have had.

Mike – Sorry for breaking the guy code ;) From now on, beer, junkfood, ciigarettes, and evenings spent watching scantily clad women wrestling in mud will now be called “Coffee” :)
Just kidding – I will be happy to bring over a container.

Thanks for reading and commenting all,

David

-- There is little that is simple when it comes to making a simple box.