Amazing how much of learning any hobby or diy skill in the US is about learning what to buy and googling and reading forum posts. And how far you can get with zero conceptual understanding of what you’re doing, based purely in such shopping/forum knowledge and trial-and-error.
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Gonna take a serious stab at pivoting ribbonfarm into a maker-ish blog. Got a few posts outlined on these adventures.
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“You’re not a hobbyist, you’re a redditor studying Chinese suppliers as a business anthropologist. Your hobby is an anthropological research method”
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Maybe this arises from confusion over techne, episteme, metis. The hobby isn’t necessarily an inferior thing or application of book learning
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