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Music metaphor: If “project” is like “composition” and “skill” is like “scale” or “chord” I need something intermediate, like a raga. Like “clockwork” is a raga but “rover” is a composition and “soldering” and “Arduino” are scales/chords.
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Would fixing and maintaining things fill this niche? Gives you an immediate instrumental use for new marginal knowledge and tools. Carves out each next small incremental step into a huge system.
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Not for me. I think that’s more like tuning instruments, restringing guitar etc? There’s pleasure of doing necessary work but no aesthetic rehearsal and creative aspect.
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I guess I was thinking of ambitious maintenance projects. Where you’re intimidated by the prospect of doing it and learning a lot in the process. Maybe upgrades/modding would get at more of the creative part?
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