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.”
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 😇
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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But you don’t knock down model cities or burn down gardens. It’s not long effort per se. It’s ratio of reward schedule length to effort schedule length. A garden you boot up in 2 years can last centuries with just marginal maintenance effort.
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