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Core Values ========== In short: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh42ZeuCR71DwFpEQWPTT6ItatBEbN5nDpIdhSPTiZTzqusshitlE5TSfGziy-WBpA3fxuBHStqF-tZxxAsO1IenNiTYZAC_niNrhn4BFy7clCduMrzQCjmx8gRTSdRSTsXmwzgmzau7ZJ65Em2H3mkSPXdGpUYdUaKgoSicbO_lc4n328kmU_xLv5XKdAx/s320/20240422_165...

I'm surprised that the cardboard is rigid enough, but any flex probably compensates for what has to be a slight wobble from the wood bearing? One improvement would be to have a second board, so the shaft doesn't just go through one hole. It would also be interesting to see if it is possible to intr...

Disk Sander ========== https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib6V1hgmjTvLGwYtP0hOgzvGjPhMZeh7h8XvquFtq8Ro17uR-L3byd-0dYbQZwxgLWUk1ebwVe0BTLW022C3WfO9-PsrGaiXTMPUpnKFn7Na3FtbuCV_PVlD0NyXQfG6-4bP4akrfZLVkjkNhsYEm37R00WHr7EafBNSXwjvmS52l2tET8i9861OPGgu_m/w240-h320/diskSander.jpg I ...

Going Electric =========== This is a companion piece to junk punk. For the first several years of me making stuff, I used hand saws for all of my cuts, and removed layers of wood with sandpaper or files. The only electric tool I regularly used was a drill, and even at that one of my earliest posts o...

@xmj. I hadn't read "The System Works" before. It makes me wonder what other goodies are in the archives that I haven't read. Great piece from the maestro... Ran writes (in 2002, edited 2012): The system tells us that joining the system is good: It's good for a failed artist, with a small ...

@daylen. Okay, I'm willing to play the game implicit in the exercise, but I also don't want that to the bury the central thrust of the piece, which was about context-shifting and how it is the source of the key tricks to holding attention past points that are healthy or desirable. And on that level,...

Wow, yeah, I see Infinite Jest is 1,079 pages. That is likely to remain on my to-read list indefinitely ;) David Foster Wallace also has collections of essays, some of which read like mini Infinite Jests... Dude loves end notes [1]. Some of the essays are available online. I mean, in the legal spot...

Thanks for your journal update! I started John Michael Greer's Arch Druid Report a few times, each time deciding it was crazy, until I finally accepted that reality is perhaps stranger than I thought. Since then I enjoy his Ecosophia blog . There's lots of things to disagree with. The tip about cou...

I have boxes and boxes of negatives. I wonder if I really even need to do this. Maybe I should just grit my teeth and throw it all in a dumpster. I would argue for a few representative photos from each time frame of his life. Once you get over five, the amount just starts to seem like "a lot&q...

Stimulation ======== ** Cue eerie music. All that is in shot is some waves bubbling over. ** This goes on a while. Then narrator starts: Modern society has created a situation where direct experiences of life have become diluted and dulled. This has occurred through mass media and the excess use of ...

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Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:34 am

Maybe I missed my life's calling to work in sales...

Sounds like it. Or maybe the calling was to run a small business. In the book The E-myth it is argued that unless you are hiring out other people under you, you are constantly in a job interview.

Ran writes: March 5. Another quote from a book I'm reading, Morris Berman's Wandering God: | What Woodburn discovered in Tanzania was that the Hadza do not experience any severe | food shortages and that they are unconcerned about the future. Although all Hadza | consider themselves to be kin, they ...

Shop Jig ======= There are *a lot* of jigs like the one I am about to show you on the internet. It is one of the rare projects that you can still find with a modern search engine even if you ignore YouTube. Search term "cross cutting station", maybe throw in circular saw into that query, b...

Thank you again. I am curious how much pilish it trained on as it seems to be a pretty niche topic (I hadn't heard of it). Not too surprising that you hadn't. Pilish is an offshoot of memorizing digits of pi, which is just math appreciation. People who actually do things in STEM tend to not be inter...

ChatGPT 4 can do it although I bet Gemini advanced is more poetic, ha. Thank you for your time and using your access looking into it. Since the first one was plagiarized [1] and the second was a fail, could I trouble you to do one more with a prompt along the lines of "write a new story in pil...

tl;dr GPT -3 can't write in Pilish , but will just lie to say that it has done it correctly. If someone has GPT -4, please test to see if that version can (same request for Gemini) Next ask: please write a sentence in pilish so we can see if you are human. This is your John Henry moment! Longer ramb...

I wanted to make it explicit that my concerns are really about the last, last bit of life. This terrible zone could be as short as a few months, seems to have a median of two years, but can be 10 years... I see that it being 6% of grandma's life was a some seriously bad luck. So I'll admit I have de...

Something important to point out here. If you take things brought up by Sclass, Scott and 7, and combine it with the example from my family, you see that you don't just throw money at these first-order systems, you have to have people who will check up and provide a lot of service in the cracks. The...

I often recommend the following two books by MIT teaching prof Sanjoy Mahajan to grad students for getting better at ball parking and thinking about complex problems: Street Fighting Mathematics: https://sept.mit.edu/sites/default/files/Streetfighting%20Mathematics.pdf The Art of Insight: https://l...