Working With My Hands
I find value in a consistent personal practice of physical making. It provides balance with my laptop job by exercising different parts of my brain and body. I aspire to spend a few hours (or days) each week covered in flour or sawdust. The flour comes from a ritual of fresh baked sourdough (bread, pretzels, waffles, and more). The sawdust comes from a practice of hand furniture building and ever-escalating home projects.
The skills and tools are different, but the process — as with design — is an exercise in problem solving.
Why did this baguette come out so flat? How might I tweak the process for a better result? Did those tweaks work?
Who decided it was a good idea to have no ground slope away from the house? How might I create some without driving myself insane or breaking the bank?
It's an endless pursuit of skill & knowledge to do the next thing a little better.
Deer-proof backyard garden
Soft maple cheese board & cherry cheese knife
Maple spatula with maple & walnut cutting board
Cedar spatula
Fun with patterns
Progress on a coffee scoop from a found branch
Curly cherry spoon
Baguette (attempt) on end grain maple cutting board
In progress maple mixing spoon
Walnut & apricot loaf
Walnut scoops from scraps
Cedar outdoor table & benches
Coffee scoop from a found branch
Guest room closet nook
Curly birch dining table
Plain & olive loaves
Wheat loaf
An exercise in repetition
Cedar garden beds
Patterned loaf
That’s it (for now)
Take a look at some other work*:
* done with computers
Building trust by coaching new hosts on how to take great car photos.
🚙 Turo
🚀 Shipped November 2019
📱 iOS, Android, and Web
Improving marketplace safety by adding positive friction.
🚙 Turo
🚀 Shipped October 2018
📱 iOS, Android, and Web
Allowing hosts to list & earn anywhere.
🚙 Turo
🚀 Shipped March 2018
📱 iOS, Android, and Web