I kind of want someone to fite me (like argue about it but in the genteel nice friendly way) about Tailspin and tell me what’s wrong with the ideas in it, even though I only just started Chapter 3
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In the concept of How to Read a Book’s “syntopic reading,” the ideas I’m synthesizing across these are about workplaces that provide a sense of meaning and of belonging. Where are the rays of light and of hope in manufacturing work?
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I worked as a machinist’s apprentice through 3 high school summers in a precision optics lab (making sub-wavelength-accurate parabolic optics) and it was this amazing crucible where I really learned what Mens et Manus done right looks like.
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I will never not be grateful for the experience of learning to work an interferometer to validate theory, while helping physicists abuse opamps to get things done, and the smell of way oil.
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(The LabView programming was also helpful negative experience, in that I knew to avoid it forever thereafter, which took active doing, seriously LabView: whyyy)
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I'm currently on Doughnut Economics (despite
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Just started it. Then got distracted by some future stuff. Then decided that inflight wifi is a technology I should buy into (literally). Now I'm wondering what kind of
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I hear your were in Iceland and I missed you.
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