There’s an old saying “The cobbler’s son has no shoes.” It’s generally taken to mean that we can neglect to do for ourselves something we do for other people.

I’ve been writing a few scripts for my personal use, things I’ve long intended to do but only recently got around to doing.

I said something about this and someone pointed out that what I said rhymed. With a little editing I turned this into a little couplet:

The cobbler’s son is getting some shoes:
Writing some scripts for myself to use.

I won’t be blogging about my scripts because they’re not interesting. As I commented here, really useful productivity tools are not interesting to a wide audience precisely because they’re so specialized.

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