Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a thing for tools.
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.
I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.
The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.
I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.