It was the first snow of the year, and I stared out the front window into the the clean white field during my first zoom call of the morning: an 8am planning call. This meant looking at someone else’s spreadsheet.
It was valuable content, poorly arranged, providing very low utility.
After the call, I went down to the lower level of our home to start a fire. I was in a poor mood from the poorly arranged plan. When I looked at my hearth. It got worse. This particular arrangment reminded me of the planning call: valuable content, poorly arranged, providing very low utility.
Frustration, and cabin fever can be great motivators for design.
During the next, even less valuable zoom call, I drew a solution. I sent the die line to Corey Crispe, my neighbor and resident metal ninja. He replied “Easy peasy. Are you busy tonight? come over. We’ll make it. You can use the pulse mig.”
By midnight, I was back home, very dirty, and with one better designed wood box, and a more utilitarian way to start my morning fire.
