Lily Coyle is my hero

Kudos to Lily Coyle for channeling the voice of Satan in a truly wonderful letter she sent to the Minneapolis StarTribune. Many thanks to the paper for publishing it, and to willshetterly for noticing and posting about it.

It's the second letter in the column. Will picked it up from NPR, where it was in separate paragraph; here's the easier-to-read version in Will's post.

Edited to reflect formatting source info from Will.

An hour is not a day long

In 55+ years, most people learn that an hour is not a day. Expecting to accomplish in an hour a project that takes a day or more is rarely a useful or winning strategy. Making plans to spend the same four hours working on five different projects with each one needing somewhere a minimum of six hours on a good day is likely to work just as well as using the same $500 to pay for six different things, each one costing $1,000.

Just call me a slow learner and I promise I won't claim I've got it yet.