Chuck Grimmett

Chuck Grimmett

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Hi, I’m Chuck Grimmett.

Check out my blog or my microblog, see what I’m reading, what I like, dig around in my digital garden, learn a bit more about me, or search for something.

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  • Our house has officially graduated from Duplos to Legos. We are less than 30 mins in and the little guy has already made some creative stuff. RIP our feet.

  • This year we received four New Year’s cards from people we usually receive Christmas cards from. New trend?

  • Oh my goodness, summer camps are already in waitlist territory. Brutal.

  • In reply to https://jeremyfelt.com/notes/note-i-now-have-3-years-of-draft-the-books-i-rea/ by Jeremy Felt.

    Make a /reading page, dump the backlog there, then put what you’ve read in reverse chronological order there going forward.

  • It is so much more satisfying to leaf through books for ideas than searching online. More time consuming, but more grounding.

    Two recent examples: Simple beadhead fly ideas and bean recipes.

  • In reply to More book editing and AI by Manton Reece.

    I sometimes have a similar conundrums when woodworking: Do I spend the next couple hours flattening this piece with a No. 5 plane or run it through the machine planer a few times? Do I carve out this dough bowl by hand with a gouge or put a carving disk on the electric grinder?

    I really like using hand tools, but certainly will use power tools to save time and energy. Where I personally draw the line with woodworking is that I have no interest in using a CNC, but I don’t mind when other people do.

    In some aspect it is the artist’s creative vision that counts most, but there is definitely a sliding spectrum on which the method of execution matters, too. An AI prompt is a kind of creative vision, but there is a lot to be said for a human grappling with and creating art manually.

  • There were some ice floes on the Hudson in the Highlands section this morning (Garrison to Beacon). Nice to see some ice on the river.

  • Stratification of my workshop dust collection bag.

  • Observation: I remember very little about the Blinkist summaries I “read” (perhaps consumed is a better word) a few years ago, whereas I remember a lot about the full-length books I read a few years ago.

    Perhaps I wasn’t taking the Blinkist summaries seriously or there is a selection bias going on (I chose to read the full version of things I was interested in and was thus more engaged), but either way they were a waste of time.

  • Eastern Hemlock branch covered in snow. The sled Charlie and I were riding came to a stop underneath this branch with tiny pine cones.

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