Paul GrahamVerified account

Interesting that designing mechanical parts or optimising factories doesn’t count as technical.

I built my own chocolate machine buying a standing screwing machine and glass balls that a paint machine manufacturer was happy to sell to me. This way I proved wrong that chocolate with coconut sugar would give the metal aftertaste as in the first laboratory that we worked with.

The night before I bought a sugar grinder somewhere from a family second hand such that I could pick it up the same evening, which saved me at least two days extra.

You should, it's a really valuable skill to have. These days there is so many projects out there that people don't really have to get that highly skilled depending on what their goals are, you can do a lot of things by just learning the basics of a language.