[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Self-expression]], [[Problem-solving]] - People: [[Adam Savage]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LprSB3_rles --- ## Summary - [[Adapt your approach to the experience you wish to craft]]. - [[Always consider cost and fun when it comes to build vs. buy]]. - [[Innovation and intrigue can exist in integration, not just in invention]]. - "[[A good shop involves a lot of cannibalism]]." - "[[Being in love with someone (something) is not about fate - it's about work]]." - [[Love is work. That's what makes it worth it.]] ## Notes - Make it or buy it? "That is a question that has **changed over the years**." - Adam recalls a story about his (early) experience with making prop weapons for movies. - Prop weapons often bolt fake stuff (the sci-fi add-ons) onto real stuff (a gun). This maintains familiarity of usage and preserves functionality, such as the ability for the gun to fire blanks. - Adam's buying of base weapons or base parts has changed over the years based on his experience in manufacturing and project requirements. "Based on what feels like more sophisticated approach to the experience I'm looking for from that prop". (That prop, referring to the base prop that is mostly used for a particular weapon build). - [[Adapt your approach to the experience you wish to craft]]. - [[Don't allow methodology to dictate the outcome]]. - "[[If I could buy exactly precisely what I was going to make... I'll probably buy it.]]" - [[Always consider cost and fun when it comes to build vs. buy]]. - If the community is making and providing high quality products, just use other people's stuff if you can. "Have no reason to try to re-invent that wheel. Have no problem not re-inventing that wheel." - [[For me, what's fun is to buy those pieces, and then weather them and bring them in]]." - [[Innovation and intrigue can exist in integration, not just in invention]]. - "[[A good shop involves a lot of cannibalism]]." - You absolutely have to take things apart and reconfigure them. - [[Place preciousness on process and parts rather than the product]]. - "[[Building something always makes me feel in love with it]]." - Celebrate the existence of a build and the part you played in it's creation. Rejoice in it's memory as you proceed to let it go. - [[To love is to live. To live is to let go.]]. - "[[Being in love with someone (something) is not about fate - it's about work]]." - It's not about the product that you've made. It's about the process of making that you've experienced. ## Original ![[When to make vs buy something-1.jpg]] ![[When to make vs buy something-2.jpg]] ![[When to make vs buy something-3.jpg]]