Get a drill. Go spend good money – as much as you can afford – on a really good drill. Take good care of it, and it will pay for itself a hundred times over every year. Seriously, drills solve so many problems. You can fix ninety-eight out of every hundred problems you encounter with a drill.
Drills should be up there with fire and the wheel in terms of inventions that have benefitted humanity. This isn’t even just a home-owner thing. If you live in an apartment, on a boat, in your car – if you have room for a drill, get one. And if you don’t, throw something else away because very few things will be as useful to you as a drill would be.
Someday, I will be gone. Some part of why I maintain this blog is the idea that my children (or maybe even grandchildren) will someday look to this for the advice I can no longer give them in person. So I try to talk about how to think clearly, how to be a good person, and how to understand your fellow humans. But also sometimes, the best advice is just very, very down to Earth: get a drill.
You can learn to save humanity tomorrow. Today, fix the door.
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