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J.D. Roth on the Rewards of Making

Posted March 16, 2010 7:58 AM

From Boing Boing:

J.D. Roth of the excellent personal finance blog, Get Rich Slowly, read an advance copy of my forthcoming book, Made By Hand, and wrote a great post on the rewards of spending more time making things. He starts off his essay with an homage to his late father, who was a very handy guy. J.D.'s father built an electricity generating wind turbine, a sailboat, a telescope, his own accounting software, an electric sprinkler system for his (failed) nursery business, a line of wheat grinders and food dryers, and more.

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03/17/2010 5:30 AM

Indeed, making things is food for the soul.
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