{"id":2250,"date":"2011-03-28T10:43:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/the-invisble-hand-of-working-stuff\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:43:29","slug":"the-invisble-hand-of-working-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/the-invisble-hand-of-working-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The invisble hand of working stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switching machines I realized that I had to re-install webmailer. This <a href=\"http:\/\/belkadan.com\/webmailer\/\">wonderful preference plane<\/a> lets you launch any web based mail program whenever your default mail application would be launched.<\/p>\n<p>I have used it for years. Thousands of times. And it always worked.<\/p>\n<p>And I failed to appreciate that. Going through our lives our attention is where we need to act or avoid. The broken and annoying stuff is what we notice.<\/p>\n<p>All the well working things that surround us go naturally under appreciated. And, since people have piled up allot of technology and culture in the last couple of generations there is actually a huge amount of that.<\/p>\n<p>If a thousand items worked and one does not, that one will be all we think about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switching machines I realized that I had to re-install webmailer. This wonderful preference plane lets you launch any web based mail program whenever your default mail application would be launched. I have used it for years. Thousands of times. And it always worked. And I failed to appreciate that. 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