- How to Build Impossible Things 📚
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- Publication date: 2023-05-18
- Read: Oct 4, 2024
I found this book at my favourite book store and was really interested in it without knowing too much about it. I initially thought it was more about actually building things. But the book turned out to be more like listening to an old carpenter reminiscing about life. Which I thoroughly enjoyed. I come from a line of car mechanics and carpenters and it reminded me a lot of talking to my dad or grandpa. The book is divided into chapters on various topics around life. And usually a lot of them have examples from houses the author built. Lots of them including the fanciest apartments of New York. Many stories reminded me of just general vibes in project management even in software engineering. But also stories I’ve heard from carpenters and other engineers. There’s a chapter about “Friendship and Death” that made me very emotional and I actually stopped reading there for a bit. But I can definitely overall recommend it if “old carpenter talks about life” is a vibe you’d enjoy.