Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

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Hidden Brain · Designing a Life that Matters · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

I'd never worked with anything that heavy before.

I was completely inexperienced.

I broke tools.

I had to get more materials.

And I had this idea in my head about this perfect wrench that I'd seen that was, you know, bought from a very expensive supplier.

And then I finally realized what I was doing was, which is a metaphor for the rest of real life, is I'm trying to make a real thing.

I'm trying to bring it into being.

I'm trying to take something and allow something real, something finite, something limited, something constrained, something even with flaws in it to come into being.

And all that struggle with breaking parts and what have you proved to me that this thing was going to be a compromise.

Well, the thing about making anything is, of course, its limitation.

And this goes back to one of our big reframes on the meaning question is what we call the scandal of particularity, which is there is no perfect fire hydrant wrench.

There is no perfect birthday cake.

There is no perfect conversation with Chakravartta.

There's only the one I'm actually in.

So thing one in making something is recognizing its limitation.

All ultimates are only really found in the particular.

And they reflect that.

They're not the fullness of it, but they reflect it honestly.

And that isn't a problem.

It's not, oh, I fell short again.

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