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Life themes shortlist I’m considering for next year 1. Instruments and measurement 2. Repairs (kintsugi and non) 3. Valuation habits 4. Mansions 5. Scavenging 6. Jury-rigging 7. Chindogu 8. Design fictions 9. Tooling 10. Reuse/repurpose/reclaim
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I need a life theme for the next year, something more background than goals or plans 🤔 Something the show is about. Neither “about nothing” like Seinfeld, nor a MacGuffin type of nothing.
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I’m going to transform into an ersatz Pirsig aren’t I? Zen and the Art of Spackling Small Holes and Shopping on Aliexpress
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I started woodworking and I will say the various Paretos are innumerable. Every broken thing is a coding challenge. If you go on YouTube it's like the discussion forum where everyone is playing golf trying to reduce # of characters. After a year I can fix just about anything.
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Similar to your tripod thing: I had just bought a house in a hurricane prone area and didn't have shutters. Storm coming. I paid some people to plywood my windows. Hurricane was a dud but it was several hundred $ in wood and I didn't want to throw it away. Built a shop with it.
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