Take a few minutes and ponder why

There's been a bit of time for navel gazing here of late, and I've thought that there's not enough of my personal opinion in the content of this blog. But today once again Seth Godin has a post that is just complete without my blundering input.

The Reason: "The reason the typewriter keyboard is in a weird order is that original typewriters jammed, and they needed to rearrange the letters to keep common letters far apart.

The reason we don't have school in the summer is so our kids can help with farmwork.

The reason there's a toll on that bridge but not on that road is that there used to be a ferry on that river, and the ferryman needed to make a living.

The reason you go to a building to go to work every day is that steam or water power used to turn a giant winch-like structure that went right through the factory building. Every workman used that power to do his work. As factories got more sophisticated, it remained efficient to move the workers, not the stuff.

What's your reason?"

Why do we do the stuff we do? All too much of it is from habit, or even the systems we have devised but not updated or reviewed. There's a lot of scope to improve things if only we set aside a few moments to ponder every now and then. Blue sky your world; today