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Re:We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower by msgodel on Friday July 04, 2025 @01:29PM (#44466369)
In theory. The socialization premium is getting high enough that you are actually often better off doing everything on your own again.
Re:We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower by WillAdams on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:02PM (#44467027)
That's a tough row to hoe --- classic example of that is a pencil (see Thoreau and his family's history/business), though interestingly, there is a specialized tool now for making one (from components):

John Economaki's "Pencil Precision" from Bridge City Tool Works:

https://bridgecitytools.com/products/pp-1-pencil-precision

I have the preceding "Chopstick Master v2" and it is a delight to use (and probably if there was a suitable set of instructions for collecting the materials for making a pencil lead and baking them, I'd probably have the successor).