In Praise of “Competence!”
Nov 5 · 4 min read
Correspondence. It’s one of the many things that makes my quiet life here in the Slaughterhouse worthwhile. Since I moved away from Boston and the US, I’m actually trading letters with people again. OK, they’re not handwritten, but the emails do have multiple, sometimes non-work-related paragraphs.
One recently hit my inbox with the subject line “Competence.” That made me giggle. It reminded me that, at one point, I even changed my Twitter handle to “Competence Man.”
The original reason for doing this is funny. The brand name of the oven in our Brussels…


