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PJ Vogt

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

What does an intern do at a place that makes jet fuel pumps for aircraft? Like, what do they let the intern do?

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

What does an intern do at a place that makes jet fuel pumps for aircraft? Like, what do they let the intern do?

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

Not the oatmeal cream pies. I'm not crazy about the oatmeal cream pies.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

Not the oatmeal cream pies. I'm not crazy about the oatmeal cream pies.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

Not the oatmeal cream pies. I'm not crazy about the oatmeal cream pies.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

So you weren't making the snack cakes, you were making the machine that makes the snack cakes. Right. Two processes were happening at the same time at the Little Debbie Snack Cakes factory. One was visible, one was not. If you'd walked into the factory, you would have noticed the first process.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

So you weren't making the snack cakes, you were making the machine that makes the snack cakes. Right. Two processes were happening at the same time at the Little Debbie Snack Cakes factory. One was visible, one was not. If you'd walked into the factory, you would have noticed the first process.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

So you weren't making the snack cakes, you were making the machine that makes the snack cakes. Right. Two processes were happening at the same time at the Little Debbie Snack Cakes factory. One was visible, one was not. If you'd walked into the factory, you would have noticed the first process.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

A line of machines made snack cakes every day, overseen by engineers who knew how to tweak their operations. Process two, though, was slower and more subtle. Knowledge was being transferred in the factory over generations. Adult Destin later would think a lot about that second process. Young intern Destin now was mainly just focused on the first.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

A line of machines made snack cakes every day, overseen by engineers who knew how to tweak their operations. Process two, though, was slower and more subtle. Knowledge was being transferred in the factory over generations. Adult Destin later would think a lot about that second process. Young intern Destin now was mainly just focused on the first.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

A line of machines made snack cakes every day, overseen by engineers who knew how to tweak their operations. Process two, though, was slower and more subtle. Knowledge was being transferred in the factory over generations. Adult Destin later would think a lot about that second process. Young intern Destin now was mainly just focused on the first.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

Anything that is like junk food has passed into my stomach at some point. I'm not like a, I just eat everything.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

Anything that is like junk food has passed into my stomach at some point. I'm not like a, I just eat everything.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

Anything that is like junk food has passed into my stomach at some point. I'm not like a, I just eat everything.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

When you're in that position where you're the intern and they're like, fix the knife because we have a, like, there's an impedance problem so that the subsonic, supersonic, how do you describe the knife? It's an ultrasonic knife. The ultrasonic. The ultrasonic knife is not, you know, like, vibrating at the right frequency to cut both of these kinds of, like, delicious junk food.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

When you're in that position where you're the intern and they're like, fix the knife because we have a, like, there's an impedance problem so that the subsonic, supersonic, how do you describe the knife? It's an ultrasonic knife. The ultrasonic. The ultrasonic knife is not, you know, like, vibrating at the right frequency to cut both of these kinds of, like, delicious junk food.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

When you're in that position where you're the intern and they're like, fix the knife because we have a, like, there's an impedance problem so that the subsonic, supersonic, how do you describe the knife? It's an ultrasonic knife. The ultrasonic. The ultrasonic knife is not, you know, like, vibrating at the right frequency to cut both of these kinds of, like, delicious junk food.

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

And you have to figure this out, like... You're not going to go home and Google, like, ultrasonic knife Reddit. Like, what is the body of knowledge that you refer to? What does your nighttime look like when you're trying to figure out how to solve that problem to come back in the morning and be the smart intern who can explain it? Like, how do you even learn to think that way?

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

And you have to figure this out, like... You're not going to go home and Google, like, ultrasonic knife Reddit. Like, what is the body of knowledge that you refer to? What does your nighttime look like when you're trying to figure out how to solve that problem to come back in the morning and be the smart intern who can explain it? Like, how do you even learn to think that way?

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The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

And you have to figure this out, like... You're not going to go home and Google, like, ultrasonic knife Reddit. Like, what is the body of knowledge that you refer to? What does your nighttime look like when you're trying to figure out how to solve that problem to come back in the morning and be the smart intern who can explain it? Like, how do you even learn to think that way?