My boss in Chicago still prints every PDF I send, so I've started adding a "view online" link at the top for him.

Read an article once that called those tricks "tribal knowledge." It's the stuff you never learn in a classroom or from a book. It gets passed down from person to person on the job. That hand-width trick is a perfect example. Makes you wonder how many other little fixes are out there that we just don't write down.

500 hours on a bottom saw is just a crazy number to think about. I mean, that's like watching the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy over a hundred times, but underwater with a power tool. I can't even imagine the kind of focus that takes, or how many batteries you must have gone through. That's a real relationship with a piece of gear right there.

Counting all those notes must have been a trip. I read about a club that tracked their ratings and found they gave higher scores to books by men, which was a real wake-up call. Makes you wonder what your own stack of notes would really say.

Learned to crack the door open a bit at night for free air flow.