all in your headache
when someone tells you the pain you feel is all in your head, they’re being dismissive — it’s imaginary. but they’ve inadvertently told the truth. it is all in your head but it’s not artificial and it’s not thought. we’ll get to that in a moment but this raises a very important issue. the brain is often talked about having three parts from different periods of evolution. they’re roughly termed…
shooting perfection
there are three awesome basic guides necessary for handtool woodworking. the best saw guide you’ll ever use is a flat piece of plastic with a couple of magnets in it. the best chisel guide you’ll ever use is a … flat piece of plastic with a couple of magnets in it. the best shooting board, however? that’s a little more involved. let’s talk about it — why you need one,…
workbench faq callout!
so the next major project article i’m working on is about building a (large/permanent) workbench. i have a set of questions i want to answer in this article but i know some of you (mostly students but anyone else is welcome to ask) will have other questions. so fire them over to me at avi.sato@icloud.com — if you don’t mind, put “workbench faq” as the subject while you’re at it.…
plato (history of philosophy 3)
while socrates likely wrote nothing despite teaching the world (leading to his own death) a lot about its hypocrisy and stupidity, plato made up for it. born in the 420s bc, he is probably the most fundamental figure in early western philosophy and he’s seen as the beginning of the idea of education and school in the west, too — he started the first formal educational organization we know of…
