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Indeed. I've known many people that, if given 1000 hours to cut down a tree would spend 4 hours sharpening the axe, 500 hours watching YouTube tutorials on cutting down trees, 300 hours on axe reviews, and 195 hours arguing online about how to do it.

I've sometimes been that person.



I can't get it done without numerous trips to Home Depot. At least one of those trips will be immediately after another, to buy what I was supposed to buy on the first trip, but where the first trip ended with me picking up a lot of other things.




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