I hired a landscaper once. Sort of.
He came out, measured the yard, and told me he'd get back to me with a number.
He never did.
Maybe he got busy. Maybe the paper ended up somewhere in his truck. I don't know. What I do know is that his work wasn't the problem. He showed up and he knew what he was doing. The quote just didn't have anywhere to go except his memory.
I spent that money somewhere else. He probably never found out.
His problem wasn't landscaping. It was that the quote depended on him remembering. That's what I fix: the time the busywork eats, and the things that slip when all of it runs through you.

