Cost vs. Excellence.

Bobby over at LifeCurch/Swerve Blog had a great post today showing a cost vs. excellence curve.

Basically, he’s talking about the Law of Diminishing Returns in the frame of the church.

Excellence grows with more time and more money put in on the front end, but eventually you get less bang for your buck and it costs way more and takes way more time to be a little more excellent.

Even the church is not immune to the laws of capitalist economics.

5 (Six) Dangerous things you should let your kids do:

Gever Tulley’s TED TALK:

 

 

1. Play with Fire
2. Own a Pocket Knife
3. Throw a Spear
4. Deconstruct Appliances
5. Break the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
6. Drive a Car

What ever happened to the fine art of tinkering?

This talk reminded me that tinkering is how I learned how things work. There wasn’t a toy or stereo or watch or alarm clock that made it to the garbage without me or my brother first taking it apart. 

Look around you. What’s broken?

Do you know how to fix it? Or do you need to deconstruct it first?

This speaks to me on so many different levels. I love TED Talks.