Phenomenal framing.
“The setup is the practice. But unlike the Japanese woodworker, the user of these objects typically believes he is doing the thing the tool is shaped like, and not the thing the tool actually does.”
Must read (esp. with all the slop circulating currently).
https://twitter.com/Stoiiic/status/2022020794591904218

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