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Meditations on Craft

These essays are mostly about the process and philosophy of craft. Why is craft valuable? What frustrations drive craftspeople crazy, and how do you remedy them? Is there a better, more joyous way to approach creating original work?

Titles:

  • A Box of Chocolates
  • Achieving Mastery
  • Clinging
  • Creativity, stash, and hoarding
  • Discipline and creativity
  • Fail faster!
  • Giving yourself permission
  • Honoring the Divine
  • Into the Wilderness
  • Iterative design
  • Learning to Think
  • Mind the gap
  • On Creativity
  • On Kits, Creativity, and Weekend Projects
  • Slow living
  • The Loss of the Creature
  • The Myth of One Idea, and the Peril of the Perfect Choice
  • The Perils of Categorization
  • The Value of Craft
  • Thoughts on The Road Not Taken
  • Ways of seeing
  • You Don’t Need to Be a Master!

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