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Father & Son Collaboration
I may have mentioned before that I share my shop with some friends. A friend made a nutcracker with his young son. I think it came out pretty well!
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3D Printing
I recently acquired a 3D printer through a kickstarter, the AnkerMake M5. It was pretty easy to set up and the first two files printed well. The first one came from the pre-installed library. It has some complicated features to it, but printed fine. The second, the bookmark, I designed in Fusion 360 while following…
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Unavailable Thoughts
My son said a while ago that there were thoughts a person could not have if he only spoke one language. I said I had trouble believing there were thoughts I could not think. Robert Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, has some Koreans tell him that thinking in a language with…
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Blue Mars
I recently read Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. From the highlights I made, gardening and terraforming, including ecopoiesis, dominated. According to NASA, “Ecopoiesis is the concept of initiating life in a new place; more precisely, the creation of an ecosystem capable of supporting life. It is the concept of initiating “terraforming” using physical, chemical…
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Physical Journal
In a Ryan Holiday YouTube video on journaling, he suggests a physical journal on the basis that in the future it will be available, whereas digital copies may not be. One of the reasons I like Obsidian is that it creates text files. They are unlikely to be unavailable in the future. Like physical books,…
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Planer Stand
This afternoon, I designed my first project from scratch using Fusion 360, a stand for my planer. I found a design I liked from a You Tuber, Daniel Demir (video at Thickness Planer Stand). I modified Daniel’s design dimensions to my needs and lost myself for a few hours in the design. The design is…
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Amor fati
One of our neighbors here in Vermont passed away this past weekend. I had only known him about a year. He was a very nice person and seemed to be in good shape only a week ago. Very involved in the community. He was younger than I am. Amor Fati – a love of fate.…
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Nature Observations
Yesterday and today I spent time taking pictures of plants, identifying them (initially with Google Lens and then with the National Audubon Field Guide to Trees and the iNaturalist site), and then posting the ones I could identify to the iNaturalist site. A good advance on my naturalist skills. I listened to a Tim Ferriss…
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Cal Newton – Working Memory .txt
I was listening to a Deep Questions podcast and Cal did a segment on what he calls WorkingMemory.txt, a text file with thoughts that pop up that you jot down to free working memory. Here is a link to the blog post Cal wrote on the subject – https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/10/27/deep-habits-workingmemory-txt-the-most-important-productivity-tool-youve-never-heard-of/. In the comments to the blog…
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Subtract
From a blog post from Derek Silvers: “No amount of adding will get me to where I want to be. The adding mindset is deeply ingrained. It’s easy to think I need something else. It’s hard to look instead at what to remove. The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, are drawn to…
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