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Title: The Joy of Craft Authors: Zane Claes Category:books Number of Highlights: 6 Date: 2022-07-17 Last Highlighted: 2017-01-17

Highlights

We live our lives in the tension between reality and imagination. (56)

Knowing that there will be food on the table makes the world predictable, and a predictable world is a prerequisite for well-being. (419)

Humans are shockingly good at finding new things to complain about. (470)

Everybody, in every station of life, has their own set of problems, which are just as difficult to them as are our own to us. (474)

This is exactly why scientists write a hypothesis and choose their variables before they start an experiment. (506)

As Michael Green put it, GDP “counts bombs and prisons as progress.” (527)