Trade ya?

To scale, do things that don’t scale. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Imagine you have a paperclip. Somebody offers to trade you a pen shaped like a fish in exchange for it.

A pen is worth more than a paperclip, right? You take the trade. Then, you trade the pen for a doorknob.

After that, you trade the doorknob for an old camping stove.

Then, you trade the camping stove for an electric generator, and you trade the generator for a keg of beer and a neon Budweiser sign.

You trade the keg and the sign for a beat-up snowmobile. Then, you trade the snowmobile for a trip to the Canadian Rockies, and you trade the trip for a used van, and you trade the van for a year’s worth of free rent at a duplex in Arizona.

Once you get to Arizona, you trade the year’s worth of free rent for the right to hang out for an afternoon with heavy metal rocker Alice Cooper. And then, you’re able to trade the Alice Cooper experience for a vintage KISS-themed snow globe.

The snow globe is an odd choice except that you already know an actor who has the world’s largest collection of sno…