what is the cost of your current pace?

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what is the cost of your current pace?
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Unbilled

Marcus · Toronto

For eleven years I could tell you my effective hourly rate to the dollar. I could not tell you the last time I had watched the sky get light.

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Sol · Lisbon

I priced it wrong for years. The road through the canyon does not care how fast you take it; the walls were always going to be this old, and they will outlast every deadline I have ever met.

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Kiln Time

Ines · Porto

There is a temperature at which clay stops being clay and becomes stone, and there is no arguing with it. You cannot want it faster.

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Nadia · Lisbon

The cost showed up in the people who stopped calling. Not a bill you see until it is long overdue.

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