Episode 19. Nothing Leads to Long-Term Problems Like Short-Term Thinking

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865. A short story within the novel has become well-known in its own right. Hans Brikner, the novel’s main character, notices that a dike protecting his country, the Netherlands, from flooding, leaks. He plugs the dike with his finger and stays there all night, despite the cold, until the villagers find him and repair the dike.This story kept popping into my mind when I was firing one o...