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After weeks of procrastination in my workshop, as it spiraled ever further into an entropic swamp, Iβve realized one reason why my maker projects get messier faster, get stuck more often, and stay stuck longer, is boxes. A project begins when you put a nebulous mess into one or more boxes or of some sort.
For writing thatβs trivial. At most you might need 2-3 boxes with cut and paste relationships β a physical notebook, a digital notebook, and a publishing draft.
Code gets more complex. You need minimum 3-4 boxes usually with much complex plumbing, like commits instead of C&P.
With physical projects you need physical boxes, which may need to be resized multiple times. My default is a shoebox. I have 6-7 Daiso shoeboxes plus 4-5 literal shoe boxes. And some weird boxes. My stagnant cardboard tubes arcology project is in a wardrobe moving box (plus a Roam page, an OnShape CAD project, and an unboxed legos module). Pre-projects are βlab highlight mapsβ that need boxing.
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