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Back in '08 at a job in Portland, I saw a guy frame a whole wall with just a nail gun and no chalk line. It blew my mind.
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kevinm1724d ago
Yeah, that "learning the feel of a thing" line is spot on. I read an interview with an old shipwright once who said he could shape a plank just by the sound the plane made on the wood. He said his tools were just an extension of his hands, not the other way around.
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drew_walker24d agoTop Commenter
It's like we've outsourced our own senses. You see it with GPS killing our sense of direction, or apps telling us exactly when to leave instead of just knowing the traffic patterns. That shipwright's ear for the plane is a deep kind of knowing, and we trade it away for digital certainty every time. We get the result faster maybe, but we lose the feel for the process itself. It makes everything feel more distant, like we're just managing tools instead of actually doing the work.
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sanchez.ivan24d ago
That "no chalk line" thing is wild. I see that kind of skill everywhere now, people who can just eyeball something and get it perfect. Makes you wonder how much we rely on tools instead of just learning the feel of a thing.
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