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the only verb that turns a thought into something you can drop on your foot
means The act of bringing something into existence by forming, building, or creating it.
from From the Old English verb 'macian,' meaning to make or construct, a cousin of the German 'machen.' The deeper root traces back to a Proto-Germanic sense of fitting or shaping things together — which is fitting, since to make has always meant to take separate pieces and force them into one thing that holds.
- oldest impulse
- Predates language; we shaped tools before we named them
- brain reward
- Building things floods the brain with dopamine
- flow trigger
- Hands-on work reliably induces deep focus states
- latin root
- From 'machina,' the same source as machine
- failure built-in
- Every maker's first hundred attempts are usually garbage
manufacturing — toyota produces 10 million vehicles annually using lean manufacturing methods
film production — avatar (2009) took 4 years to make with cutting-edge motion capture technology
craft beer brewing — stone brewing in san diego hand-crafted their first ipa batch in 1996