Monday, April 29, 2024

Every Tool's a Hammer

Every Tool's a Hammer

Life Is What You Make It

by Adam Savage

Atria Books 2019

Library loan ebook

321 pages

4/26

The cover of this paperback/ebook version immediately brought to mind the cover of The Pencil:

A History of Design
and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski

Knopf 1989

354 pages

I’ve watched a number of Adam Savage's recent videos (apropos to nothing, he has a stapler collection - I have a stapler collection), but as someone who does less than 1/10,000 of what he does, I don’t know what I was expecting from his book. What I got—among many other things—was a whole new way to organize my editing process, and a new appreciation for my own less than 1/10,000 projects.

I’m buying this one in hardback to put in a place of honor in the builder/how-to/maker section of my library.

Cover of hardback version

Atria Books 2019

288 pages

Next, I’m trying out the type of pencil he has in his pocket (pencil nerds please see "The Pencil" book reference above), the PaperMate Sharpwriter #2. Well, the lesser modern version of it anyway. He made a whole video about it. Go watch, enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwo1kOcwxs

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