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When I learned to use a table saw, my teacher impressed upon me that the machine wants to cut fingers. Fear the saw!#
Powerful tools can do powerful things. If you want to make handmade wooden furniture you must cut wood. Your desire to have limbs and your desire to have furniture are not at odds if you learn to use tools safely.1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit et soluta est facere dignissimos magna sunt ullamco praesentium laborum non consectetur est in consectetur ea praesentium dolorum facilis proident cupidatat ipsum voluptate vero ad nisi est aute esse excepteur dolor accusamus quos pariatur dignissimos eum sit officia placeat odio qui cillum#
There are2 This blog supports footnotes! 🙂 table saws that will stop at the touch of a finger, but I don’t know of any chainsaw that won’t cut an arm. There is a limit to how safe a tool can be before its function is crippled.#
We should not stop making powerful tools because they are dangerous. Rather, we should empower people to use powerful tools safely.#
I use the saw, I fear the saw. I have handmade furniture, and I have all my limbs.#
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Straight quotes are a typewriter habit. In traditional printing, all quotation marks were curly. But typewriter character sets were limited by mechanical constraints and physical space. By replacing the curly opening and closing quotes with ambidextrous straight quotes, two slots became available for other characters.#
Word processors are not limited in this way.3 I use the saw, I fear the saw. I have handmade furniture, and I have all my limbs. You can always get curly quotes. Compared to straight quotes, curly quotes are more legible on the page and match the other characters better. Therefore, straight quotes should never, ever appear in your documents.#
It’s a fun philosophical experiment, testing what you really need.4 I use the saw, I fear the saw. I have handmade furniture, and I have all my limbs. Especially when costs are high, it raises the bar on that word: “need”.#
(Note: I will say “I” and “my”, but my teenage son was very involved in most of these decisions, and loves this place even more than I do.)#
My land is an off-grid forest valley with a creek running through the middle. No buildings, no electricity or services. Just land. So I really started from scratch.#
For two years, before building anything, we spent time there in all seasons, finding our favorite spots. We built a path through our forest. Twice, we came face-to-face with a wild boar.#
Growing older is a long series of moments where you think: wait, I wasn't ready to let that go yet. It's subtraction as much as addition. Or a trade. More money, less time. A partner, a family that feels further away. Better mental health, worse physical health. Confident, less carefree. Each version of you had something the current one doesn't. And it can be tough to get over what you've lost and appreciate what you've gained.#
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➡ What does it look like?
➡ Does it look good?#
Social media doesn't help. It shows me old adverts, games and TV shows whilst painfully sad music plays in the background. It hurts like heartbreak watching them. And yet, I watch. Casting my mind back in longing to events and moments that are gone. The "good times". Times that in the moment I didn't even think were "good".#