The Do-It-Yourself Decade

A great many people laud traditional values and lifestyles, but they leave out the hard part: it take a heck of a lot of work, effort and sacrifice.

I'm calling the next ten years The Do-It-Yourself Decade, as whatever we want to happen will increasingly be up to us to do for ourselves. After decades of fostering passive consumption--let someone else make or do the stuff we want / need--we're entering an era that will no longer be optimized for passive consumption, it will be optimized for active pa…