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A chore is supposed to be a kind of task. But the same act is a chore for one person and craft for another, and the act does not change between them. Derived from exemplarity, a chore is an artifact made with the reading against its exemplar declined — which makes a chore list a document about the person rather than about the work. … readWhat Is a Chore
Taste is usually called preference, and preference cannot explain the most common experience in any craft: knowing your own work is short while being unable to fix it. Derived from exemplarity instead, taste is a reading of the angle between an artifact and the exemplar it was made against. … readWhat Is Taste
You were taught that practice closes a gap. But a made thing carries two numbers, not one, and only the second decides fidelity — which is why a plateau is what progress feels like from the inside, and why growing skill is a multiplier on an angle you did not set. … readWhat Is Practice
You were taught that wasted time is a leak from a finite account. But there is no account, and every mark falls short of what it aimed at. Waste is a stretch that left neither an artifact nor a correction — and the ordinary word accuses the fallow decade while exonerating the productive one that surprised nobody. … readWhat Is Waste
You were taught that patience is endurance — the strength to suffer delay without complaint. But endurance cannot tell a patient person from one who has quietly given up. Patience is a position: correction continued, forcing declined, while what you are turned toward is not yet readable. … readWhat Is Patience
You were taught that work is graded by what it wins. But reception is measured against expectations nobody commands, while the form the work answers to never moves. Work is not what you get for it. It is which kind of miss you make — and whether you are still correcting. … readWhat Is Work