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Yardsticks

When we started seeing each other on an every-other-day basis, I quickly realized…

You keep a ruler in your drawer, next to the planner you use to make full use of every single minute of your day and the calculator you use to crunch up your financial digit thingies.

I keep my yardstick on the shelf with my moleskine science-writing journals, next to the books on craftsmanship, poetry, and Mid-East history. 

We both know what to measure ourselves against. After all, we’re human and wired for comparison.

But sometimes we forget that borrowing and misusing each other’s metric tools will give us the wrong impression about each other’s values.