{"id":2230,"date":"2008-04-21T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2008-04-21T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T16:24:00","slug":"home-improvement-and-the-vertical-asymptote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"Home improvement and the vertical asymptote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All home improvement projects have a completion curve.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2229\" height=250 alt=chart.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/chart.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WHere X is the percent of completion, and Y is the difficulty required, in any project you do, there comes a level of diminishing returns. The last few percent of the project require a greater and greater level of difficulty, aproaching the infinite. The trick professionals use, because professionals have the same situation, is to conceal the last 2% under a piece of trim. In lanscaping, you plant a begonia. In auto repair, you cover the run with a pinstripe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All home improvement projects have a completion curve. WHere X is the percent of completion, and Y is the difficulty required, in any project you do, there comes a level of diminishing returns. The last few percent of the project require a greater and greater level of difficulty, aproaching the infinite. The trick professionals use, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}