I spent Sunday at a potato festival of sorts, where you could pick your own potatoes. You get to the farm with staff directing parking, and you pay a small fee to enter the farm. You get to play farm games, free drinks, make apple cider, unlimited fries. Kids can milk cows, wash their potatoes, peel their potatoes, french fry cut their potatoes and bring them to be fried at the stand. They also had these hoes you can use to dig the potatoes in the field, you had to be careful not to stab the potatoes you dug or they would be damaged.

I got home and sorted them into sizes, we wanted the big ones for American baked potatoes, potatoes here like all things are small. It is important not to clean potatoes, the dirt helps them last the winter. But it is worth checking them and sorting them so we can eat any partially damaged ones (damaged by our digging) quickly.

It occurred to me that this is sorting, checking, cleaning, storing, this meticulous work is done by the high paid software engineers in various forms, medical professionals, scientists, and unlimited # of professions. If you left one bad potato in, it will probably ruin the whole store faster than if it was not.