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From your first sentence, you missed the point completely. She's not a maker because she doesn't consider herself a maker. You're trying to project your own ide
by benihana 12y ago
From your first sentence, you missed the point completely. She's not a maker because she doesn't consider herself a maker. You're trying to project your own ideas of what a maker is onto her, and it makes her uncomfortable:
>* I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity, rather than to express a facet of your own identity
- chaostheory 12y agoSo if I don't consider myself a programmer, even though other people consider me one because I create software; there's something wrong with that? Did we encourage her to write? Is this article not an expression of herself? Is she not a materials engineer? Also I don't see why 'maker' can't be 'someone who makes things'. Maybe I'm not all too familiar with 'maker culture'. I didn't realize that there were so many formal rules for a non-centralized movement. I just felt it was a bunch of people with the same idea that it's better to create something for fun at least once in a while instead of just consuming 24/7.