Building a kit clock has given me a real taste for creating life and totally gone to my head. Sometimes I wind it up and say “let there be ticktocking.”
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Something incredibly satisfying here that you don’t get with programming. A sense of creating indefinitely self-sustaining potential in finite time with finite energy, and stepping back to watch it flourish without further intervention. God-feeling 😇
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For those who want to buy the kit it’s currently on sale for prime day at $35.99 amazon.com/ROKR-Mechanica
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Humans I’m convinced are fundamentally sprinters, not long-distance runners. So sprinting (= winding up a clock in 30s) to power a marathon (keep it ticking for 24h) is deeply satisfying. The opposite, like setting up dominoes for hours to knock down in seconds, feels profane.
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