When I started learning woodwork I was really excited to apply geometry which I hadn't used much since highschool (even working with geospatial data vis). Howev

When I started learning woodwork I was really excited to apply geometry which I hadn't used much since highschool (even working with geospatial data vis). However as I've progressed I find myself using math less and less and it's often faster and more accurate not to measure or calculate. To give an example, making a three legged stool I needed 3 equally spaced spaced points around a circle, I could find the center, draw the first point then use a protractor to find the other 3 points at 120 deg. But it was far far quicker to just use a divider, step around the circle a few times adjusting until 3 steps takes you back to the first point. Of course this is still some form of math, but it doesn't involve any calculation. I feel there's a whole world of very useful techniques that work on a different abstraction, though I'm struggling to name or describe to properly.