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Over a decade ago, I was working in a factory making air-conditioning units in the Deep South. Sweltering temperatures were nearly unbearable for a day's usual ten-hour shift of production labor. Even though the irony of sweating in an A/C plant was ridiculous, I discovered that the best way for me to pass the time was to focus on craftsmanship. I would pay maximum attention to the relatively minimal alterations I would make to each part, concentrating only on the immediate task. This allowed me to evolve time segments from shifts, hours and minutes to individual twenty-five second operations. This helped me look past how much time was left, how many parts had I done, or how many parts still remained.