uh you do a lot of tool tips joel bingham says you do a lot of tool tips
but i was intrigued as to which tool you find yourself reaching for
most regardless of the nature of the job well it's a pencil that's without a
doubt it's a pencil
my preferred pencil the paper mate sharp writer number two in yellow
paper mate if any of you are watching please shoot these for me and yell
and white i would like to have some custom papermate sharpwriter number twos
but your customer service people flat out refuse to make them in white
i know i know there's a whole separate infrastructure to the pens you do for
customized businesses and the pens and pencils that
you don't i get that i totally understand the supply chain and
the economics of a supply chain i'm still asking you somebody somebody
please tell paper mate
to make these puppies in white so that i could have some custom ones done to
feel like a piece of nasa hardware the other the other thing that i use
more than almost anything else is a sharp blade it's a knife blade
whether that's an exacto blade or a knife blade or a pair of scissors
a pencil and a blade if you gave me only those two things i could still get a lot
of work done
um
vicky bly any relation to captain bly could be we don't know vicky bly
wants to know how did the tested crew like the foam safe
well you do have to understand that we've almost
like that's the tested space is mostly empty right like someone comes in about
once every week to pick up mail and stuff like that
um they have told me that they like it i hope that they genuinely do um it's
kind of like it's really delightful to see this thing
that looks so heavy just hanging from the ceiling
i and i i recognize i know there was a comment that i'm missing
big stainless steel pins that look like they should close it
you're right i need to put those in i didn't have a quick and dirty solution
for that when i was making the safe so i didn't implement it
but i hear you
um te paci loco asks what do you hope people will learn
about making in the creative process from watching
your one day builds
that's a wonderful question what do i think
people will learn from from the making and creative
process
i hope that people learn that the desire to
bring something into the world that didn't exist
is one of the most important human desires there is
yeah we are inventors and we are explorers
and those two terms are two different terms for a similar process
of unpacking the universe around us
if i have a mission in life a project it is to be a permission slip
for people to follow that proclivity down the path
that follow that thing that they can't stop thinking about
down the path to implementation to execution
and because i have experienced
like so much good exists in my life because uh
because i have done that and i want other people to share in the same
joy of that feeling so i want to you know i state this a lot my
hobbies are useless but nobody needs more replicas
of movie props in the world nobody except for me
well sure there are lots of other people that do this but it's like i'm
i'm not a i'm not a a a a first responder i'm i'm i'm not a
politician i'm not you know i i'm not making the world a
substantively better place by making these
things here in the cave but by telling stories about them
i like to think that i am contributing to a cultural discourse that gives
validity to the fact that all of our hobbies are
weird they're all weird fishing is
indispensable sorry fishing is indefensible once you
scratch the surface really i'm gonna go on and cast a thing and catch a fish
and throw it back what's the point of that i mean there's
so many better ways to eat than do that but when you indulge in those hobbies
there's all this other important stuff that goes on there's all this important
meditation and quietude and recalibration reconstitution you have to
face yourself anybody who does any hobby has had to
face themselves that's all of that is what i hope people
take away from this that thing you want to do whether it's
making sweaters or houses or music or poems
do it do it i want to if i can help you get the impetus to do
that nothing would make me happier
that is a wonderful question i i really take that
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