july

I had a Stone-masoning / stone carving teacher once (one semester) who told me about how he used to go to these stone masoninng conferences, and there were people who had the best tools and they'd parade around the tools they had, but didn't make anything. But they did have the tools and how that was cool for them.

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

Every profession is susceptible to shiny object syndrome. I’ve seen this in pretty much every job I’ve ever had. Inevitably someone always conflates the equipment they spent a lot of money on as a substitute for experience and doing the work.