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Beating it requires knowing the right way to nail a board.
When I was about 8 years old, I decided that I needed to construct a sturdy fort to protect myself from the army of aliens (who cleverly had taken the form of my older sister and her friends) that were constantly invading my backyard.
I had never built anything this large or complex before – a birdhouse in...