The Final Layer When I first decided to build the facade from foam, I expected to finish it with fiberglass. I could already imagine the experience: trouncing around the basement in a Tyvek suit, sweating my guts out, applying fiberglass resin over an enormous doorway and then spending countless hours sanding it into the correct […]
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It Has to Make the “Pssshhh” Sound (Part 8)
There was one question everyone asked when they learned I was building a science-fiction airlock: “Will it make the pssshhh sound?” Everyone asked. It did not matter that the door had unusual geometry, custom graphics, glowing arc reactors, a control panel or an actual mechanism capable of moving two heavy pocket doors. Apparently, none of […]
Call Me “Stickers” (Part 7)
In the Pixar movie Cars, Lightning McQueen earns the nickname “Stickers” because his headlights are not real. They are just stickers. We can call them decals, vinyl graphics, identification markings or visual communication elements. Those terms all sound much more sophisticated. But, in the end, they are just stickers. That does not mean they are […]
Boulders, Bowling Balls, Softballs and Marbles
Imagine each of these things. Different sizes, right? Right. This is how I think about tasks. Boulders are big tasks – they might even be entire projects. Much like a block of marble waiting to be sculpted, the boulder is unrefined…it has no appreciable form. The boulder represents a large unit of work that needs […]
The Difference Between Tinkering and Success?
Have you ever invested your heart and soul into a project only to find out that nobody wanted it? Me too. Did you ever do it again with the same result? Yeah, I’ve done that too. In some cases, you didn’t spend the time to get the word out. You didn’t do proper “marketing.” In […]
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