I discovered this series from my neighbor last week, and already ripped through the full 38-part series.

Lifelong shipwright Louis Sauzedde meticulously walks through the steps of building a flat-bottomed skiff from scratch. He goes from raw slabs of white oak and fir stickered in his backyard, through milling, planing, assembling, and finishing the full boat.

Have you had that feeling of being several weeks into a project, and you find yourself wandering around, struggling to wrangle the scope back to what you thought it was when you started?

It’s an easy trap to fall into. It’s why I’m always thinking about ways to make targets smaller (or closer, if you’re thinking about real physical targets). The bigger and more ambitious you want to be with an objective, the more confidence you need to have that the objective is the right one. What happens often is we decide a project scope — a feature or product...

I fell into a rabbit hole of videos from these guys and their off-grid cabin in the woods. This one gives you a time-lapse of the project from start to finish, with no narration.

In COVID times, there’s something very appealing about having an escape like this, and a piece of land to roam around on.