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Honesty in craft | thesephist.com

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I used to play with Legos a lot as a child. The beautiful thing about Legos is that building the models that came in the box was just the first step, and my favorite part was what I could build on my own. I built little houses and airplanes and cars and animals and everything in between, with my imagination and trial-and-error as the only guides. In Lego, there’s no pretense about what you’re supposed to build. If you want to build a totally, completely unrealistic spaceship that’s 90% engines with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, you can. If you want to build a photorealistic reconstruction of the original Macintosh, you can. In Lego, nobody can judge you about what you build, because that’s not the point. The point is the building, and you build what you want to create. There is no point in building what someone else wants—why would you? The whole point is to make what you want to see. There’s a certain kind of honesty to creating with Legos, to building exactly and entirely what you

I used to play with Legos a lot as a child. The beautiful thing about Legos is that building the models that came in the box was just the first step, and my favorite part was what I could build on my own. I built little houses and airplanes and cars and animals and everything in between, with my imagination and trial-and-error as the only guides. In Lego, there's no pretense about what you're supposed to build. If you want to build a totally, completely unrealistic spaceship that's 90% engines with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, you can. If you want to build a photorealistic reconstruction of

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