I will admit I hate doing handyman shit now. Used to be proud to be able to do basic stuff as a teenager but jeez it’s high effort, low (psychological) reward. I’d get bored to tears if I had to do full time handyman work like minor maintenance and repairs in a building all day.
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Not saying you should be contemptuous of or entirely avoid such work, but you shouldn’t fetishize or romanticize it, or develop a reactionary suspicion of leveraged conceptual-symbolic information work. You should try to minimize and automate it and level up as much as you can.
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Try to work at the highest abstraction level you’re capable of without becoming authoriritarian-high-modernist legibilist about lower level stuff. Retaining that connection doesn’t take much. Watching someone changing a lightbulb can be as good as doing it yourself.
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Another fabulously unsatisfying maintenance chore done. One more left for tomorrow. And backlog for brave new world of dumbass digital maintenance stuff to take care of.
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List of things I’d have been excited to do as a kid but now just found tedious and annoying and wish had a butler to do: replace car battery
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Zen and the art of paying the Los Altos bike mechanic...
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It depends on exactly what kind of tasks you mean, but I find that a work rhythm of splitting logs or working a lathe is more relaxing than those of coding or writing, which for me can be pretty frenetic or anxious. Agreed that household maintenance is not the highest calling.
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E.g. Levin from Anna Karenina


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It is kind of nice to do something, finish it, and actually be done with it. My information work is never finished.
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