Why To Make Things

A collection for Paul Kirwin based on this prompt: “I’m a retired custom woodworker. I find community in the writings of others that have found satisfaction and comfort and value in the crafting of things. I’m not looking for ‘How-To Make Things’ books but more like ‘Why To Make Things’ books”

Alex Dobrenko

And perhaps the most important thing to realize is that we not only need to create for each other, but for ourselves as well. Creating something is the perfect way to avoid wasting the precious moments that we have been given. To contribute, to create, to chip in to the world around you and to add your line to the world’s story — that is a life... See more

James Clear • Smart People Should Create Things

How to build a newthing

Yancey Strickler ideaspace.ystrickler.com

Handwork in Wood

William Noyes

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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Studs Terkel • 2 highlights

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It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship’s keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must be experimentation of several generations of craftsmen.

Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

The desire to create for its own sake is what it means to be human.

Thomas Bevan • Our Tools and Us

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin • 99 highlights

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