The Principle of Diminutive AdditivesTM
The principle of
diminutive additives is very simple: Little
things add up. This
principle, important in explaining all manner of things that happen in our
lives was discovered, well really just named, by me (Rich Borglum) in about 1985.
5000 little drops of
rain can make you very wet. If you start
out the day with a temperature of 65 degrees and 20 little degrees start
running away one at a time, you will be cold at the end of day.
If you eat just 100
extra calories every day, you will gain a lot of weight over a period of a few
years. If you save just a dollar a day,
at 5 percent annual interest, at the end of 30 years you will have $24,967.
If you save just 20
seconds on a manufacturing operation, you will save 33 minutes while processing only 100 pieces. That is
26.4 hours when doing only 4800 parts. Do you still think little
things don’t add up??
Or let’s go on our
ten minute break, but add just a couple of minutes to each one. If we have 30 people each working 250
days --- that is 7500 total “people
days.” At four minutes a day for each “people
day”, that is 30,000 minutes, which is 500 hours a year.
When you go home
tonight, if you have a traffic signal on your route, think about this. If every driver shaves just a little bit off
the light what will happen. You start
one or two seconds early on your green and that gal on your left stops just one
or two seconds late on her red, where are you going to be? T-Boned that’s where. Little things add up. (12 miles an hour equals 17.6 feet per
second)
Look around you --- at home, on the job, or the next time you
are “out and about”. What examples of
diminutive additives can you see.
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