Author's Note: Contents edited from some notes of mine written down from the past few years.
Some facts
You can build anything sufficiently designed.
Your quality is largely limited by your design capacity and your capability to utilize your resources.
Build Process
Where does the mass go? When making anything you are moving mass. Either moving, removing, or adding features.
How does it join? How do you connect one component to another? What types of material can connect and with what methods.
What tools do you have? How do you move or join mass?
That's all you need.
In order to make, or fix, anything you just need to ask the right questions.
Unfortunately, how you design is typically the limitation.
So how do you design? Not from pen to paper or really any artistic endeavor, but in purpose. Purpose is the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. Design is an attempt at clarifying the purpose of something.
Good design fulfils existence. To understand the core, the soul, of something makes designing it natural and effortless. Poor design allows for contradiction in the process, making the object difficult to use, difficult to maintain, and ultimately difficult to find meaning in.
So, when you make something, really think about what it is and what it needs to be for it to fulfil its purpose. In your own life, thinking about purpose isn't your job, you were already made.
Your purpose is known completely only by your creator.
What fulfils you is likely a good guess as to what it is though.
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