Interesting article by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt (the authors of “Freakonomics”) in the New York Times today. They discuss the phenomenon of work as leisure: "On a more personal note: one of the authors of this column has a sister who runs a thriving yarn store, while the other is married to a knitting devotee who might buy $40 worth of yarn for a single scarf and then spend 10 hours knitting it. Even if her labor is valued at only $10 an hour, the scarf costs at least $140 — or roughly $100 more than a similar machine-made scarf might cost." I think it's the satisfaction of creating that plays a big part in why people choose to do or make things they can have done by someone else. Read the article here. There's a Freakanomics blog, too.