An idea from The Book of Five Rings

A good foreman builder sorts his wood. Straight, clean timber goes where people will see it, and strong but knotted wood goes where it won’t show. Weak wood becomes scaffolding and then firewood. He hands out jobs to his workers the same way, by what each one can do.

From The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

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