On "Affordable Summer Places to Live and the Importance of a Best Practice Organization"

This conflates two unrelated things and misses the point entirely. Affordable housing has nothing to do with whether your shop runs on best practices — that's a personal life choice, not a business framework. A plumber making smart decisions about where to live is fine, but it shouldn't be wrapped up as organizational excellence. If the piece is trying to say you can't build a solid operation without figuring out your cost of living first, that's backwards — you fix the business, then the personal finances follow. Either way, don't let feel-good lifestyle content distract from the actual work of running tight operations.