“We want this to be perfect. We just have to go slow.”
Wisdom is like art. You find the most helpful advice in the oddest places. Recently, I brought two jackets with misbehaving zippers into a leather repair store. That is an understatement, somehow. An underselling of the store. The building is old—the family has been repairing shoes, purses, leather goods for three generations. The man behind the counter was wearing a paint-splattered, tattered…