Making
الصنعة
the act of making things
[FARHAN TO WRITE - 200 to 600 words on what this theme means to you. Not an abstract definition; a personal account. What pieces of yours live in this theme. Why you keep returning to it.]
- The door latch I threw a prototype across the room. It landed next to the answer.
- Two days without AI I ran out of tokens. They were the most productive two days I have had in years.
- Writing it out by hand An ad that ran for forty years, copied out longhand.
- The curb cut effect People poured the ramps themselves. Then everyone started using them.
- Four places on Earth A product is not a thing you hold. It is a relationship between four places, and someone has to stay awake between them.
- Our words are ours You have the ability to YELL and Sing and whisper. It would be a shame for that to fade away.
- Building with my hands It made me a good engineer. It also made me a better person.
- Hardware is hard is not a strategy It is an excuse. We live in a physical world.