tools - Jack Cheng

#389: Working with Your Hands

On tools, machines, and materiality.

Tied Arch Bridge getting ready to be moved over I-94. Red cranes and tracks, Fisher Building in background.

#374: On AI-Assisted Writing

Cybernetic hero journeys and “artists” vs “creators”.

Black and white. Sleeping pup at foot of bed. Julia on laptop, out of focus.

#363: Tools and Platforms

Defining, discerning between the two.

#319: Wendell Berry’s Tiny Little No

On rules for adopting new technology.

Black and white. Smokies through a clearing of trees.

#316: A Marvel, An Obfuscation

Thoughts on developing film.

Harvesting first leaves from the garden.

#308: Three Meditations on Tools

Hara's knives, Steinbeck's pencils, and more thoughts on exactness.

A sleeping pup.

#306: Writing with Steinbeck

Finding camaraderie in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden journal.

Sunset with silhouetted trees, through paned windows.

#305: The Exactness of Tools

Garden work, technological toolkits, and revisiting story charts.