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in the order they present themselves
“I wonder where that is,” you think.
You begin to look. Your attention is diverted almost immediately and then diverted again. You move through the morning with a calm, oblivious focus, taking on tasks — incidental ones — in the order they present themselves, which is to say no order at all. Puttering is small-scale, stream-of-consciousness problem-solving. It is setting sail on a sea of random course changes. The day passes...
— “On the Art of Puttering,” in the New York Times (June 6, 2011)
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