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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

Adam Savage

I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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Anand Thakur
That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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Anand Thakur
Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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Believe Better Less Long Paid People Run You
I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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Feeling Hurt Like Looked
When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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Anand Thakur
Let’s blow some stuff up.
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Blow Fierce Some Stuff Up
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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Exotic Long Material Mind Process Refine Remove Thinking Variable
Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.
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Crowds Laughing Teacher
Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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Geek Inventories Inventory Learning Thing
The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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Anywhere Believe Episode Misconception People Phrase Theme Trend
Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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Ballon Genre Going Haystack Lead Legend Myth Needle Over People Phrase Tracking
The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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Literally Long Made Paint Story Tell Use What Where
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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Arranging Name Ofcourse Order Organisation Point Tool
Failure is always an option.
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Always Failure Option
Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Go Knee Let Pray Praying Saint
Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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List Manage Parse World

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