![]() I wish there were more competitive cultures around reducing consumption, to appeal to people like me who engage with competition. In high school I made a hobby out of hypermiling my dad’s old Toyota, trying to maximize driving efficiency with throttle and aerodynamic tricks which in retrospect were sometimes reckless. From Autodesk Fusion 360 and micromobility company KUHMUTE, a project recap that spans embedded systems design, mechanical engineering, and local fabrication to create a universal dock capable of charging scooters, ebikes, delivery robots, and electric wheelchairs.The Prepared is supported by our awesome Members , and through generous support from: Sponsored. More jobs, and info on how to post yours, on The Prepared's job board.Toronto Public Library is hiring an artificial intelligence innovator in residence.Philips is hiring a domestic appliances design lead in Shanghai, CN.Mark's School of Texas is hiring a 3D design and woodworking teacher in Dallas. Firefly Aerospace is hiring a loads and dynamics engineer in Cedar Park, TX.First Resonance is hiring a senior UX/UI product designer in LA. ![]() The most clicked link from last week's issue (~11% of opens) was a beautiful announcement video for the upcoming Lord of the Rings show (that used no CGI). The answer is somewhere in between-what is the best heuristic for choosing? In the process I discovered Project Farm, an incredibly comprehensive YouTube channel testing different grades of tools, but all this led me back to wishing there were more ways to effectively share tools.Īnyways, are you around San Francisco? Do you want to share tools? Let’s get coffee. Going all-out and buying a complete set of Snap-on tools is overkill, but buying everything from Amazon Basics is also clearly unwise if you plan to use them with any regularity. I gave a lot of these away too, but this made me realize that getting the correct “level” of a thing is a challenge. I had a fair amount of redundant tools, often the result of buying low budget initially and then upgrading with more use. Tool libraries are an example of such a system. In the end I gave a lot away on craigslist, but I wish there were more communities and systems for sharing tools. I had accumulated a lot of specialized tools that I used once for a specific project, and I found myself conflicted about hanging onto them. Which led me to wondering how I even accumulated it all in the first place, and ruminating a bit on materialism more broadly. Literally stuff-I don’t recall exactly what, and it hasn’t really changed my life. I moved back to San Francisco last week, and in the process donated three car-loads of stuff.
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