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I had a Stone-masoning / stone carving teacher once (one semester) who told me about how he used to go to these stone masoninng conferences, and there were people who had the best tools and they'd parade around the tools they had, but didn't make anything. But they did have the tools and how that was cool for them.

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This isn't entirely related, but maybe kind of:

I once heard somewhere that it's surprisingly challenging to automate masonry with robots. For a few reasons. But the one that stood out to me, was about mortar. Because it takes some human intuition and artistry, to just kinda FEEL out the mortaring. And I think about this a lot, when I hear people get all freaked out about AI and robots and stuff.

This was awhile back. And I don't follow this type of stuff closely. So maybe I'm wrong, and they've figured this out by now. But I still think about it a lot.

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Wow, very interesting about Winston Churchill. I can understand why. Seems like it would definitely be meditative.

That “feel” stuff. 

Backs up tantalisingly into the ineffable, “Q✨” quality by any other name. 

Winston Churchill used to take breaks from running WWII by doing masonry (brick walls going to nowhere) at his country estate in Kent. 

Masonry as meditation.