Because if they care about the knobs…

You’ll always have to pay up front for knob feel.

True knob feel cannot be mass-produced or outsourced. Knob feel requires attention and care. There’s no recurring revenue to attract investment in knob feel.

Source: Zach Phillips, https://little.zachphillips.blog/2021/04/18/knob-feel.html

Any thing made where the maker sweats the details - material texture, mechanism resistance, the shade of orange on the power button - it’s probably going to be a good thing. All those details add up.

Just don’t get lost in the weeds. You probably don’t need to care about every detail but many, many, many of them matter.

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Take that corn hat off Melvin

According to The Hog Book by William Hedgepeth, the most common call is “SOOO-o-oeeyyy,” but in parts of the lower Midwest “Who-o-eyyy” is a common variant. It should be noted that while certain contests champion extra-vocal creativity, such as the wearing of costumes and the bearing of props, other contests frown upon such accessorizing.

Source: https://goneoutdoors.com/hog-calling-contest-rules-5937871.html

Just a little fun. I encountered the pig call/heavy metal mashup and wondered if calling contests had rules. They do. Of course.

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On being a better kind of man

[Ted Lasso] is a sprightly, well-constructed, enjoyable comedy about sports, sure, but it’s also about men who—like the many good men I have known (even in Hollywood!)—take responsibility for the example they set, for their emotions and for the actions they take. Ted Lasso will remain deeply valuable into next year and beyond, because it is also about a bunch of very different people who display fulfilling, conscientious confidence and leadership—not the bullying, toxic, arrogant, violent, condescending domination that has, in this country, has too often masqueraded as “leadership” and “confidence.” In evolving and supporting each other through those changes, these characters form friendships and communities that are truly meaningful.

Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/12/bring-ted-lasso-energy-into-your-life

First, Ted Lasso is one of the best TV shows I think I’ve ever seen. It is already in my top charts following closely behind The West Wing and Stargate. Second, it models so well what I want to be as a Good Man it’s nearly painful to watch.

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Ask all the people

If you shipped it to the world (or even showed it to a colleague) it might be because you liked it. You made it for yourself.

But if your music, your graphic design, your website–whatever your work is–isn’t resonating with the market, it might be because you forgot to make it for them.

Source: “Well, it seems great to me” by , https://seths.blog/2021/03/well-it-seems-great-to-me/

The first ship, the one for yourself, is a foundation. Designing for all types of people makes your product soar.

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A little sluggish

The wisdom of occasionally using these various stimulants for intellectual purposes is proved by a single consideration. Each of us has a little cleverness and a great deal of sluggish stupidity. There are certain occasions when we absolutely need the little cleverness 41 that we possess.

Source: The Project Gutenberg eBook of the Intellectual Life, by Philip Gilbert Hamerton. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32151/32151-h/32151-h.htm

Clever turn of phrase I rather like. The previous passage on coffee tea/tobacco and stimulants was interesting insofar as smoking was thought to be harmless. Back when this was written, maybe they were less harmless?

But, also, there’s talk of the meal habits if famous intellectuals and they all include some amount of fasting. I KNOW I feel better when reducing the number of meals in a day… and yet I still struggle to do it regularly.

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What work should be

But all of these arguments are built on the supposition of work as the primary, enduring locus of meaning in your life. Think of it this way: Maybe office workers feel the need to make friends at work is because they spend so much time working that there’s little time to cultivate or sustain friendship elsewhere. Maybe it’s so hard to make friends in your 30s because you’re working all the time.

What remote and hybrid works supposes — and what this book I’ve been working on these last six months with my partner, Charlie, argues — is the potential for a different posture towards work, in which, again, the work itself becomes malleable, even an accessory, to the rest of our lives.

Source: The Future of Remote Work is the Opposite of Lonely by Anne Helen Petersen, https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-future-of-remote-work-is-the

We seem to have lost the thread in this late stage capitalistic society. Work is to support a life worth living, not the other way around. And while I, specifically, call what I do a vocation, I still don’t want to do it constantly.

But the idea that I could blend it into my life in a way where I can, say, work from a coffee shop some days, have a quiet office some days, or even finish up a task in the evening without feeling guilty? That would be nice.

If at the end of the day, everyone is satisfied with the things I’m accomplishing and I’m making deadlines, why does it matter when or how long I work on a given day?

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