Maker’s Creed
Why we make with digital technologies
Money
In the time I write this blogpost, a hedge-fund manager on Wall Street will have made a million short-selling stock options. Make Street ain’t Wall Street, baby!
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Fame
Let’s not be under any illusions here. App-rah ain’t getting us on Op-rah!
Fixing Stuff
Yeah, about that, we take stuff apart and sometimes stuff works when we put it back together. Just take a look around the bot-shop, littered with projects what might have been!
I have come to the conclusion that there is a primal reason that drives makers. And that is figuring out how to put curious bits and pieces together to make a little magic. We keep at it until the knowledge falls in place all at once in a satisfying “click”. The power supply comes on, code runs, an LED blinks, the motor hums in one wholesome moment of truth. Before we go in search of the next “click”, and the one after that, and the one after. Only a maker will understand.
