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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

Episode 244: Recharging

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

Design, Crafts, Leisure, How To, Arts, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about taking a break when you need to. What We’re Working On Jimmy Diresta: Released gun restoration, working on making scissors David Picciuto: Made some knives from a wrench Bob Clagett: Went on a company retreat, lots of future plans in place What we’re watching: Jimmy’s Pick of the Week: Giaco Whatever Bob’s Pick of the Week: Wild Wonderful Off-Grid David’s Pick of the Week: Jesse Driftwood

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0:00.0

I don't know about you guys but I had a fantastic weekend. That's good. What made it so fantastic?

0:08.0

We went on a company retreat. We, uh, before we came into town and I got a little air b and be

0:16.8

it was turn out was super cheap it's just like come out in the middle of nowhere

0:20.5

which i guess was what was cheap but it was on a lake and it was a cool little cabin.

0:26.0

And so we spent the weekend out there just like talking and brainstorming and thinking about future stuff and like how to make regular current stuff more you

0:36.8

know comfortable and not so rushed all the time and like talked about what

0:40.7

everybody did and how we could share workload and just hung out.

0:44.4

We played games and cook steaks and it was awesome.

0:50.0

The iPhones, no computers?

0:52.4

No, we had lots of that stuff,

0:53.7

but it was really mostly,

0:55.8

it was mostly, you know, face-to-face conversation,

0:57.8

just like sitting around a table or sitting around couches,

0:59.7

like, just brainstorming, which I think the whole purpose of it was to do that because in the

1:05.7

shop, I mean you guys know how it is like when you're faced with tools and you're faced with

1:09.3

deadlines you never really take the time to let your mind wander as far as it could go, you

1:14.6

know without distraction. And so part of it was just being out there and not having

1:20.6

anything else to do and just like we now have time to talk through these crazy rabbit trails and see where they could go and it and it was totally worthwhile because

1:31.2

I can't tell you any of the stuff obviously but we talked really far down a couple of

1:36.8

roads that we never would have made time for before and walked away with some pretty incredible opportunity.

1:45.5

So it was good, it's real good.

1:48.0

Awesome.

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