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everyone thank you for coming uh my name
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is Mark Simo and uh I work remotely as a
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developer for Stitch
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fix in fact uh over the last five years
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in the last three companies I've
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actually worked remotely uh from my
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closet in uh a Suburban uh House near
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Austin Texas and uh I've calculated that
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over that time I've saved between
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152,000 hours of travel uh just to give
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you the scale of that that's nearly a
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full-time job for a year uh which is
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kind of
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mindblowing uh and in that amount of
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time I've spent some time with my family
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but I've also done something near and
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dear to geek's heart and that's
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developed a bunch of
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hobbies uh
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now I know Geeks that are collectors and
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film Buffs and comic enthusiasts I in
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particular like music and board games
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and things like that but I think that
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there is a classification of hobbies
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that are distinct and those are
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crafts um I think a craft is different
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in the fact that it produces
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something that other people
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value and maybe at first the other other
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people that value it are like your
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significant other and your mom but
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overall I think it's something that as
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you
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progress you are able to produce things
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that other people value
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so I contend that we as developers in
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this room are crafts people and we take
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the bits and the bites and the
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requirements and the ideas and we
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combine that with our Knowledge and
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Skills and we make
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apps um and so I think we can learn from
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other crafts and in case you couldn't
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tell from the title of The Talk The
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Craft that I've taken up lately and that
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I'd like to try to learn from is
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woodworking uh now just to give you a
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little bit of background for
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me I have kind of been roughly
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interested in woodworking for a long
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time and didn't even realize that my
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father and my grandfather were amateur
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uh furniture makers for most of my life
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until well into my 30s this is a picture
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of my dad working on my grandfather's
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shopsmith from the 50s
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and I was really excited to to that to
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learn that he had this that he was a
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resource for me but he also lives a few
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hours away from me so whenever I kind of
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had this notion of being interested in
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woodworking I couldn't exactly just pop
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over to his house and learn from him so
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I sat on it for a few few years
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until a friend of mine who I played D
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and D with posted
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this this is The Geek Chic Sultan now
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this is the Cadillac of board game
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tables uh this thing is absolutely
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gorgeous it is a marriage of Form and
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Function it's amazing um they know it
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too it's priced like a Cadillac uh
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according to the website it will cost
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between 25 and
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$30,000 and so that's little out of my
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price range for a table my kids would
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like to eat and possibly go to college
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so out of the cards for me but they have
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other tables on their website and so I
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started looking around and I got
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interested in this idea of having a
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board gaming table and I saw this one
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this is the Vanguard much simpler table
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much more affordable it's only3 or
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$4,000 still has a bunch of the same
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features it looks like a dining room
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table you can put a top on it even has
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this little Groove in the side that you
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can put cup holders kind of hook them
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into too and when I looked at this I
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thought hey that's that's pretty cool
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but $3 or $4,000 is still a bit much uh
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so I'm G to spend five or six thousand
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making a workshop so I can build
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it build versus buy right yeah
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so I bought a bunch of tools collected
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them and built a few little things here
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and there to kind of build up my skills
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these are relatively simple
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pieces and
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and after I had done this for a little
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while and I kind of had a few skills I
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decided all right it's time to find some
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plans for a table or come up with
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something and figure this
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out so I want to build a table I went to
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the wood whisper.com and got these plans
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and I found out that a table is pretty
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simple
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it's as much as there's some complex
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being putting it together it's really
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just legs aprons that join the legs
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together
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and then a top and in this particular
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table the Top's a little complicated but
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it's still just a
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top and so I want to walk you through
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the process that I took to build this
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table and some of the lessons that I
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learned that were really surprising to
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me from
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weworking so that uh I think we can
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learn from them as
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developers but before we get
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going I need to say something about
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safety I put this first because if you
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don't pay attention really to anything
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else I think this is actually pretty
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valuable so
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um every of the several hundred hours of
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YouTube videos that I've watched on on
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woodworking almost all of them at one
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point or another mention safety or have
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safety implied and they talk about two
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different kinds of safety they talk
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about immediate safety which is hey
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don't be froto um don't get a piece of
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wood thrown through your abdomen
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and protect your eyes it's been said
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that you can you know shake with a
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wooden hand walk with a wooden leg but
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you can't see with a wooden eye so these
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were important things to protect but
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there's also long-term safety that's
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involved and that's stuff like hearing
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protection and dust collection and dust
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collection is actually one of the more
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Insidious uh safety hazards with
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woodworking the dust that's between half
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a micron and two and half microns in
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size is the kind of stuff that gets in
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your lungs and it's big enough that your
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lungs can't filter it out and small
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enough that it can get all the way down
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it's a known carcinogen it's a real
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problem um and it's the stuff you can't
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see so if you see all that dust and it's
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a big mess in your shop that's fine
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that's the stuff you can sweep away it's
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the stuff that you can't sweep away
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that's the real issue so it actually
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requires a significant investment to
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really take care of this stuff well this
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is Jay Bates and he's pointing at his
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um his dust collection system that he
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installed he probably spent a few
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thousand dollars on it and it took him a
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lot of effort to put the piping all the
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way down right next to each one of the
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tools in his shop uh and as a result of
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this he actually has cleaner air in his
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shop than he does in his own
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house but he spent this money not
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because a client paid him to and not
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because he could suddenly build
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something that he couldn't before this
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there's no new features here this is
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just because he still wants to be
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woodworking in 30
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years so all of these different safety
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categories have something that you need
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to invest in but they also have habits
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that you need to form and I kind of put
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this roughly on a scale I think it's
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actually pretty easy for me to remember
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that I need to keep my fingers away from
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a blade that's spinning 30,000 times a
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minut it back at me but I find it way
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more difficult to uh figure out that I
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need to put on my mask for for the
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dust that said the habits are what keep
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me healthy long term and so the first
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lesson that I want us to talk about is
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that it's it pays to invest in your
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safety and develop these strong habits
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uh I don't mean this in some weird code
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way I mean this in an absolutely direct
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way RSI lower back pain those are real
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things vision problems are real things
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depression is a real thing these are all
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things that actually come with our job
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based on the habits that a lot of us
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take and so it behooves you to be
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willing to spend money and invest in
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your safety to make sure that you know
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you're willing to spend a few hundred
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dollars on an ergonomic keyboard uh
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whether or not your company will pay for
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it by the way s fix will pay for such
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things if you're interested um but it
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behooves you to be willing to buy a
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really good chair uh it's actually a
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really really great idea to to buy a a
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solid monitor right those are all good
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things that help your safety but there's
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also got to be good habits like you have
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to sit right in that chair you need to
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you know look away from the screen
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periodically and you know you need to go
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see your therapist or take your
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medication do all those things those are
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all things that allow you to still be
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Computing in 20 years so if you don't
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hear anything else please hear at least
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this
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all right safety lesson over let's move
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on and actually start
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building okay first first thing we're
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going to build is the
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legs now these legs are four identical
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pieces they're all rotated differently
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but they're all identical and what we
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need to do to make those identical
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pieces is the you know the age old thing
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is measure twice cut once but that's not
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actually how woodworking typically
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operates especially with power
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tools we could go and take a piece of
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wood and measure on it and and Mark a
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line and then cut but it wouldn't
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actually get us the accuracy that we
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want we'd get within maybe a 16th of an
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inch for each of those and we want this
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much more accurate than that so the key
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element to any power tools and
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woodworking is
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repeatability so for each of those three
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things that we want to do we want to
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have things legs that are the same
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length we want them to be a perfect
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square and we want them to all have
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tapers on the inside we're going to do
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repeated operations and the the first
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operation is the
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length this is J bat's miter saw it's
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just a saw that cuts across the wood and
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you place the wood right up against the
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the back there and this little thing
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right over here is called a stop
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block and so instead of meas measure
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twice cut once you're measuring once and
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cutting a bunch of times
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right you place the leg right up against
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that piece push it up against the back
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and then pull down the miter saw and you
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get four pieces that are exactly the
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same within a few thousandths of an inch
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at the
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most you just can't do that another way
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there's not there's not a consistent way
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and I can do this within a few minutes
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it would take me much longer to measure
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each one and cut them and be really
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careful about it
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so I can do the same thing whenever I'm
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trying to figure out hey how am I going
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to do the width this is the uh the fence
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on my table saw and that fence just
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keeps uh a parallel distance from the
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blade for whatever I set it at and I can
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then Place take my piece and feed it
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through and cut off up something
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parallel to one side of the piece so I
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set the distance feed our leg through
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and then rotate at 90 degrees and feed
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it through and I get a perfect
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square it's a it takes a few minutes at
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the most yet again I'm getting both
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speed and
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consistency finally this is a jig this
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is the tapering jig that allow us to cut
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the tapers the same every time and all a
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jig is is really something that allows
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you to do repeated operations quickly
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usually unique operations things that
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that are distinct and
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so this jig took I don't know three or
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four minutes to put together he made a
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cut he put a little piece on the end and
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that was
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it this allows us to make these tapers
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the same angle and the same length every
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time and I love this because whenever we
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were done we had four identical legs
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um and so what I learned from that is
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that repeatability really increases
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speed and
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consistency now I think we kind of
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naturally understand this as developers
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we use rails new and it generates us a
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site way faster than we could normally
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have and it's completely consistent we
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have like a a standard kind of way of
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doing things that's awesome that's
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totally a repeatability thing um when we
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deploy things we deploy it and it's one
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time one action that we're taking and
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we're able to do it very quickly and
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repeatably but we also have ways that we
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can apply this on a much smaller scale
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like what what if we make a jig the next
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time we need to replace some or or fix
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some data that's in production uh we've
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had data that got out of sync and we
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needed to wait a little while before we
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deploy the bug fix um because of how the
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bug worked and so we made a rake task
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and we were able to test that against
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staging and then we were able to run it
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then a few days later right after we
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deployed the fix we were able to run it
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again like clean up any problems right
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totally works and it increases our speed
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and consistency versus logging in by the
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rails console and just doing it manually
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every
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time all right so we're done with the
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legs now we're going to keep working on
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the
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aprons uh these aprons whenever I was
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doing this I actually went up to my
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dad's shop and we milled everything that
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means we just made it square and I took
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these back home and the only thing that
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was left to cut on them is the little
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Groove that allows you to put in the cup
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holders and I was doing the groove a
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little bit differently than the plans
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here and I just ended up getting
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stuck uh I was super concerned that the
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way I was going to solve this problem
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wasn't going to work and so the longer I
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waited the more fears crept
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in and I ended up having this fear that
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I was going to have this uncorrectable
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mistake that I was going to do something
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that was was going to mess this piece up
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permanently and I was never going to get
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this table finished which is not true I
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could always go buy another piece from
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the in the lumber yard right there's no
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such thing as this uncorrectable mistake
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um but there would be this wasted effort
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right that sucks I don't want to like
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think about that so I ended up having
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all this fear of wasted effort but
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that's probably not true as well I might
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have a like a little flaw but in all
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likelihood I probably wouldn't ruin a
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piece and so I ended up just having this
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fear of a flawed final
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product which I think is also fairly
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unfounded because all final products are
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flawed one way or
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another and so I finally just like
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psyched myself up and I said hey I'm
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going to cut this groove and I passed
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three of my pieces over and on the
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fourth piece I heard the router like
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scream a little bit and crunch something
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and I turned it off and looked at it and
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it was split and I did
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this yep it was pretty bad I was really
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upset and
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then I took a big deep
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breath and I thought okay now all those
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problems all those worries everything
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that I had those are all gone the only
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problem I have right now is a split
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piece right here that's all I've
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got and so it took a second I glued it I
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clamped
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it and I sanded it and it looks like
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this which if you you look really close
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you can tell that it's split but only if
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you look really
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close so the thing that I learned there
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was that a known problem is a lot better
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than a bunch of potential ones it's
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really really easy to get caught up in
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potential problems it's really really
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easy to get paralyzed by potential
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problems and this happens a lot
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especially as I consider the how big
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some of our production apps are and how
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much we have to manage sometimes it's
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really scary to deploy especially a big
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change but moving forward lets you get
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to the real problems as opposed to all
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the potential ones now being concerned
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is okay having some concern is all right
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it's the fear that paralyzes you that's
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the real
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problem all right so we've got the legs
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we've got the aprons it's time to make
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the top we have two problems with the
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top I have to both make this flat and I
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need to join it together really tightly
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it's going to be very visible and so I
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want to make sure that it's that it's
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really really really well
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joined uh and I hadn't milled this stuff
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up with my dad so I had rough lumber and
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it was time for me to get ready to to
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Mill this and so I had a couple of
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options the first thing that I decided
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to do was let's see if I can use the
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small Joiner that I bought for my
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shop and it a jointer in case you don't
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know is basically just it's got two beds
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one of them is just a little bit lower
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than the other and there's a blade
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that's spinning really fast right here
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and as you pass a piece over it nibbles
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a little bit out and so if you make
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enough passes you end up with a flat
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board it takes out all the little waves
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in the
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board and it takes out the big Scoops as
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well well if you have a really long
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board and a really short jointer and you
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pass it over it doesn't really take out
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the scoop so this wasn't really the
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right tool here so I thought hey maybe I
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can do this with a hand plane I actually
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know that it's possible to do this with
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a hand plane a hand plane just basically
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scrapes off things and has a nice flat
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bed so it keeps things flat but you have
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to keep checking it it's not big enough
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as well right it's not like I have a
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hand plane that's seven feet long so I
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needed a big piece that could tell me
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hey what parts aren't flat yet and I
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realized that I was struggling as I was
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trying to sharpen this as I was trying
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to to use the hand plane it wasn't quite
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sharp enough or I couldn't keep it sharp
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enough and then I realized I also had no
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way of knowing if it was flat because I
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had nothing in my shop that I could tell
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if it was
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flat and I ended up actually going to a
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nearby shop using a $4,500 Joiner that
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was really well tuned and getting this
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done fairly
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quickly and I bet every one of you
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thinks that I'm about to turn over the
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next slide and is this says use the
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right tool for the
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job right nope I don't think that's
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that's the case because there's two
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right tools here I could have used the
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hand plane or I could have used the the
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big jointer the difference was I was
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really fighting the hand plane and the
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Joiner was tuned up correctly and so
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what I learned was that if you're
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fighting your tools you need to focus on
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improving them
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instead
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um how many times have you fought with
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your local
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database how many times have you pushed
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rebuild on Circle C because you have
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some flaky
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tests how many times have you fought
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with your command line
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interface or your vmrc right these are
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all things that we fight with sometimes
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that keep us from doing the real work
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that we want to do that's not what we
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want to be thinking about but if we
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maintain some of those things and keep
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them sharp it's it's better Ben orstein
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talks about how he keeps uh a file on
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his compter computer called sharpening
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text and he has a shortcut that allows
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him to appin to that and anytime he
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notices something that feels just a
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little bit inefficient or isn't working
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quite right and is getting in his way
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somehow he's fighting
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it he just makes a little note and every
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morning he spends 15
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minutes and works through as many items
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in that file as he can get through in
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that time to try to sharpen it and so
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he's sharpening every day he's making
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his environment better he's improving
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what he
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has uh like to work
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with
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okay we've
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got all the four pieces they're Mill
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they're ready now we need to join them
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together so I wanted to make these with
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miter Cuts these are just like 45 degree
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joints
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and it wanted to look something like
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this and you probably can't see it from
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the back but this actually has a bit of
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a gap this is the cut that I made first
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that was with a friend's miter saw it
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wasn't all that great it was a
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inexpensive miter saw and so I couldn't
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get it tuned up to the point where it
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would make a straight up and down cut
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and where it would make a perfect 45
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degree cut and so I ended up with this
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Gap here and I started thinking okay how
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can I solve this problem because this is
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actually a pretty difficult problem um
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to get dead on something so they really
00:21:54.320
fit together perfectly and I said well I
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could buy a better miter sof
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that's $400 to
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$600 uh you can go all the way up to,
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15500 if you really want to for the
00:22:04.159
really awesome stuff on top of that I'd
00:22:06.720
need to tune it up and build something
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around it so that I could support these
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really long pieces and once I did all
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that it would work great but that's a
00:22:14.840
lot of work to make eight
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Cuts so I
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said is there another
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way and I think there might be so I said
00:22:24.880
what about a
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handsaw this is a $15 handsaw off of
00:22:28.600
Amazon that is a little piece of scrap
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wood that's perfectly 90° I clamped it
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on I put it at a dead-on 45° angle that
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I was able to to gauge with a
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bevel and I just cut
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it after it was done I took my plane and
00:22:47.440
I made it to where it was exactly on
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that bevel line I knew it was dead on 45
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degrees and when all that was said and
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done I got a good joint out of
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now what I learned from this was that
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knowing my tools and my techniques
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really improve my
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Effectiveness and I think that this
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applies to us whether we're dealing with
00:23:16.360
clients and we need to be able to inform
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them hey you actually don't need to do
00:23:20.440
800 Cuts here you actually don't need to
00:23:22.320
be able to support millions and millions
00:23:24.600
of customers what you need is this
00:23:26.880
solution that gives you just a few C
00:23:29.679
that's this is all you need this is a
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less expensive Solution that's just as
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accurate or maybe even more accurate
00:23:35.240
than that other solution it just doesn't
00:23:37.520
scale up but you don't need to scale yet
00:23:40.600
that's okay there's also the idea that
00:23:43.679
we need to know our development tools
00:23:46.679
like if you don't know your debugger if
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you don't know how to use it you don't
00:23:51.640
get to use that whenever you need to
00:23:53.880
solve a problem that way it's just not
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in your wheelhouse it's not in your tool
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chest
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you
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also like you know you may think hey I'm
00:24:03.159
just going to write puts well puts is
00:24:04.880
fine um but you may if you don't know
00:24:07.279
how to use that really effectively
00:24:08.600
either that's no good Tinder love
00:24:10.559
actually wrote a blog post a couple
00:24:12.159
years ago says I'm a puts debugger he
00:24:14.960
talked about how to use that in a really
00:24:17.039
really really powerful way he talked
00:24:18.760
about all the things that are really
00:24:20.520
interesting uh about even just using
00:24:23.039
puts puts feels like a hand tool to me
00:24:25.360
it's like really really simple right but
00:24:27.039
it can be powerful if you know how to
00:24:29.000
use it so knowing both of those options
00:24:31.960
is a huge
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deal
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okay we're back here this is at the
00:24:39.440
lumber
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yard
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and when I started I went here and I
00:24:48.440
grabbed a bunch of
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boards and they were really really rough
00:24:53.880
and I got to turn a bunch of
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boards into
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a fine piece of
00:25:01.600
furniture and I'm really proud of it
00:25:07.279
thanks I'm really proud of it um and I
00:25:11.480
finally kind of feel like a woodworker
00:25:13.919
like I was pretty excited about this
00:25:17.600
moment but I I'm not feeling like a
00:25:21.240
woodworker because I wanted to be a
00:25:22.720
woodworker I feel like a woodworker
00:25:24.840
because I wanted a
00:25:26.679
table and I got there
00:25:30.320
right and so I think having a specific
00:25:34.960
project really facilitates and motivates
00:25:36.960
learning so if you're really looking to
00:25:40.000
learn something whatever that is whether
00:25:42.279
it's a technology or a process or a new
00:25:46.399
language or a new database it doesn't
00:25:48.679
matter what it is having a specific
00:25:51.520
project I think will really help push
00:25:53.440
you forward now maybe some people can do
00:25:55.640
a class and that's fine like I have no
00:25:58.000
problem if that's the way you do it but
00:25:59.440
if you're really struggling to get
00:26:01.559
motivated I find this to be very
00:26:04.840
motivating all
00:26:07.200
right let's let's review real quick so
00:26:09.960
first thing safety matters make sure you
00:26:12.679
pay attention to your safety uh invest
00:26:15.640
in it invest and develop your good
00:26:18.480
habits focus on repeatability make sure
00:26:21.039
you find ways to use things in a
00:26:23.360
repeatable
00:26:25.360
way it doesn't just happen by accident
00:26:27.679
you have to actually look for ways to do
00:26:30.720
it if you're stuck focus on finding the
00:26:33.799
known problems rather than just thinking
00:26:35.880
about all the things that are unknown
00:26:37.880
and could go
00:26:39.960
wrong improve your tools whenever you're
00:26:42.480
fighting them
00:26:43.799
especially rather than just kind of
00:26:45.720
dealing with crappy
00:26:48.640
stuff know your options so that you can
00:26:50.960
be more
00:26:52.039
effective and have a specific project so
00:26:54.600
that you can motivate yourself and then
00:26:56.720
my bonus because the problem solving is
00:26:59.399
a skill that can be developed in any
00:27:01.000
craft now I hope that I've inspired
00:27:04.559
maybe one or two people in here to maybe
00:27:07.440
try woodworking I think that'd be really
00:27:09.000
cool um but no matter what I hope that
00:27:12.799
you are able to either observe or
00:27:15.559
participate in a craft that you can
00:27:17.480
learn from because I think that that
00:27:20.039
actually is something we can take back
00:27:21.559
to our day
00:27:23.799
jobs thank you very much my uh Twitter
00:27:27.679
handle is Mark you can follow me uh I
00:27:30.600
also work at Stitch piix and uh we are
00:27:34.399
hiring if you want to have some extra
00:27:37.120
time to develop some of these crafts and
00:27:38.480
work remotely
00:27:40.760
um we hire bright kind and goal oriented
00:27:43.480
people and I would love to talk to any
00:27:44.799
of you about that or woodworking or
00:27:46.600
board games or programming come find me
00:27:49.279
after thanks very
00:27:57.120
much