I’m doing an electronic project this week, aiming to make the GenRad 1565 into a practical microphone. If it works, I want to record a series of audio segments from Henry Wallace’s book.
The entire purpose is fun, not practical. I know nobody will listen.
As in any project, there’s a certain amount of yak-shaving. In order to reach Z, you have to do Y first; and then you find that Y won’t work unless you do X first.
I bumped into a yak this afternoon, when a coax cable and plug made at some earlier time was sort of halfway usable but really needed longer wires on the open end. My natural minimalist tendency was to use it as is and avoid the yak.
NO! THIS IS NOT AN EFFICIENT PROJECT. THE GOAL IS NOT TO ACHIEVE A PAYABLE GOAL IN THE LEAST AMOUNT OF TIME. THE GOAL IS TO SPEND LOTS OF TIME IN PHYSICAL WORK, SOLDERING AND CRIMPING AND CLIPPING AND STRIPPING.
Maximizing MAKEFORCE is the goal here, not minimizing time.
Spend as much time as possible MAKING THINGS, whether abstract or concrete. When you are CREATING, you are pushing a countervector of MAKEFORCE that helps to clear out the influence of the soul-destroyers.
Polistra's Mill 