Woodworking, Software, and Life
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Sometime We are Asking the Wrong Question
The CEO of Bronco Wine – which sells the Charles Shaw “Two Buck Chuck” wine at Trader Joe’s – was once asked how he’s able to sell wine for less than the cost of bottled water. He replied: “They’re overcharging you for the water. Don’t you get it?”
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Woodworking Podcasts that I Enjoy in 2022
Wood Talk | Woodworking The Woodworking Talk Show with Steve Ramsey Shop Talk Live – Fine Woodworking
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Caring Too Much or Caring Too Little
Caring too much often leads to unhappiness, burnout, or a stressful relationship with others. It leads to unhappiness because often the outcome of a project has too many variables that are out of our control, so rarely do a project turns out to be perfect. It leads to burnout because laser focused on something we…
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Consumer Behavior Changes Caused by the COVID Pandemic
I was reflecting on how the COVID pandemic has changed the way I shop. Here is the list: Shifted almost completely to online shopping. For example: grocery, household items, and tools. Hesitation to return unsatisfied goods. For example: a humidifier that leaves a puddle of water on the table. Brought forward purchase in anticipation of…
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Yearly Review: 2021, The Year of Change
Time flies! I cannot believe it is 2022 already. In 2021, I wanted to introduce some changes to my life because I realized my lifestyle was not very healthy. Here is what I did: Daily push-ups from January to April Harvested some broad beans in May Finished a soldering station build for my wife in…
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Three Books I am Reading Right Now: January 2022
“The Anarchist’s Design Book” by Christopher Schwarz: This book focus on vernacular furniture. More specifically, staked furniture. “Kitchen Think” by Nancy R. Hiller: This book offers one method of building kitchen cabinets that the author created by mixing other professional shop practices and her own additions. The author also offers her perspective on kitchen remodeling…
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Believe Hand Skills can be Learned by Doing
Last year around Thanksgiving time, my wife and I did what we call “Couple Shop Time.” I am into woodworking while she is into making jewelries(metal working). It is a lot of fun working in the garage at the same time. I was in the middle of a tool box project and I need to…
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“Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.”
(Quote by Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub) This quote resonated with me today. Whenever we try something new, there is a good chance of failure. So it is easier and safer to stay pessimistic because we will probably be right. However, the optimist overcomes the fear of failure and sometimes their attempt will pay…
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1 Month of Daily Blogging
Inspired by Seth Godin, I started daily blogging on Dec. 7, 2021. I originally planed to post to this blog daily but soon found out that was not sustainable. So I tweaked my goal to post every weekday. Since Dec. 7, 2021, I did 18 posts. Missed 3 posts. Overall experience is positive. I read…
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2022: The Year of Action
Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, I am doing New Year’s Theme. This focus more on the what and why but less on how. This way I am not stuck with “doing push-ups every day” when I find out other forms of exercises are better for me 6 months from now. For 2022, I have decided…
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Tingzhi(Vince) Li 