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!
