Oct. 2020: Consuming and Producing

October 2020

A list of books, audiobooks, podcasts, and some television.
This also maps my consumer habits, and how my time on Youtube and Instagram leads to shop projects and purchases.

What I am Reading this Month:

• The Tyranny of Merit, Michael J. Sandel
• Shopclass as Soul Craft, Michael Crawford
• Breakdown of Will, George Ainslie

What I am listening to this month:

(September included)

• Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
• Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (great book)
• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
• The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray
• The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff
• Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl (first time listen, read it years ago.)
• 1984, George Orwell (first time listen, haven’t read the book since high school)
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (first time listen, haven’t read the book since high school)

Podcasts:

• Sam Harris “Welcome to the Cult Factory”
• Sam Harris “The New Religion of Anti-Racism“
• Sam Harris: “A Conversation with Graeme Wood“
• Philosophize this! “Bergson on Laughter” part 1
• Partially Examined Life “Ep. 251: Simone Weil’s Ideal Society” and “Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs“
• Partially Examined Life “Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality”
• Partially Examined Life “Ep 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil”
• New York Times “Rabbit Hole” 9 episodes
• New York Times “1619: Ep. 5: The land of our fathers“
• Tribe of Mentors: “Naval Rivkant, Susan Cain, Yuval Noah Harari”

What I am watching this month:

• Dark, Netflix (maybe the best thing on TV right now.)
• The Social Delimma, Netflix (check out podcasts 15 and 16)
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld, Netflix
• Children’s Hospital, Hulu
• The Boys, Amazon Prime
• Boys State, Apple TV
• Previously watched: The Watchmen, Hulu

What I am consuming

Video game:

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Xbox)… currently a level 55 Warrior build, about 100 hours in.

Youtube:

Rob Cosman
New handcut dovetail method
you need a shooting board

Matt Estlea:
Tool Duel for shoulder planes, and router planes.
How to build a ramped shooting board.

Cold Brew… my mom and sisters got me a uKeg for my birthday. I love their awful slogan:

A uKeg for every hour. Drink all day, with class.

Beer: Tupps Triple Dry-Hopped IPA #tdhipa (new release… more is not always better.)

What I want:

After youtube vids, I want a Veritas router plane, a Veritas shoulder plane, a Rob Cosman dovetail saw and marking knife.

Heating/AC for the shop.
Drill press that can handle decently thick lumber.
Festool Kapex Miter Saw (… this is just silly… )

What I built:

3 podcasts this month, which is a bit much.

2 Shooting Planes.
I didn’t build a ramped plane. One is 24″ long, one is 18″ long. (I’ll get some completed pics up soon.)

A prototype record box for an upcoming project.
I used the crappiest plywood from Lowe’s to make this prototype. My thought was if I can cut box joints on crappy plywood, then anything else would be a delight to work with.

Tool holding/display area.
A dedicated area for my planes, spoke shaves, chisels, and some mark-making and layout implements. Made of maple ply and maple trim. (This is incomplete, still going to make some additions to it.)