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Start making physical objects. By hand because you need to embrace the work of making things. Because designing and manufacturing things requires much much mo
by brudgers 3y ago
Start making physical objects.
By hand because you need to embrace the work of making things.
Because designing and manufacturing things requires much much more work than making it by hand. That's the paradox. Yes at some statistical scale manufacturing becomes more efficient per item but not in terms of raw input of human capital.
So stop making excuses. Stop pretending that thinking about making things is more important than actually making things and failing. A badly made thing is better than the perfect imagined thing.
Good luck.
- keyvank 3y agoMakes sense, have to get my hands dirty.
- smcameron 3y agoLooking up the etymology of the word "manufacture", it's from Italian/French/Latin words for "made by hand", weirdly enough (at least, according to my lazy googling.) I say "weirdly enough" because you contrast the difficulty of manufacturing vs. making things by hand. Originally, they were the same thing, apparently (and maybe too obviously, as everything was "made by hand" in antiquity, but I found it interesting, from a kind of "word nerd" perspective)
- brudgers 3y agoI think the industrial revolution changed the word's use by changing the context in which ordinary speakers ordinarily use it. In this specific case, the OP mentions factories...and that's another word that doesn't mean what it once did when "factor" was a common term for an occupational category. "Fabricate" is another interesting term that might be useful in this context as it suggests a mechanized workshop..."workshop" seems to fall into this space too. To me it seems scale is much of the difference between factory and workshop. That scale is probably industrial.