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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

Episode 292: Diminishing Returns

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

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about finishing projects so you can move on. What We’re Working On Jimmy Diresta: Got back from Kansas City working with Make48 David Picciuto: Finally shipping new book Bob Clagett: Had a team retreat to plan 2021 and beyond! What we’re watching: David’s Pick of the Week: Technology Connections Bob’s Pick of the Week: Mythical Kitchen Jimmy’s Pick of the Week: Audit the audit

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0:00.0

We need a clever way to start the show Bob yes intro the show oh man I was hoping one of you guys would take it I don't anything. I got up late today and just could not get out of bed,

0:15.8

just lay there for a while. Jane brought me coffee, which was really nice for and I just laid there. I was lazy. And that's weird. We went on a little retreat.

0:24.0

You guys went away, didn't you?

0:25.0

Yeah, yeah, we actually didn't go away.

0:28.0

It was in town. We found a friend of ours has an Airbnb cabin on their farm.

0:32.0

And so we rented this cabin and just went, me and the guys went and talked about,

0:38.0

I like to make stuff for a couple of days and it was awesome and it was a lot of just sitting around talking and playing

0:44.8

games and you know goofing off but also just the talking once you start talking about like potential

0:51.8

cool ideas it gets really

0:55.9

taxing I don't know of a better way to put it you know it's like mentally exhausting to

1:00.1

brainstorm for days on it it is you know it's funny I I've been in that point

1:04.9

and you start you start coming up with hokey ideas or it starts getting a little too

1:08.8

unwieldy like you get past the good products it tends to happen sometimes

1:12.3

seriously you come up with a couple and you like oh wow past the good products, it tends to happen sometimes.

1:13.0

Seriously, you come up with a couple, and you like, oh wow,

1:15.0

and you come up and you come up and you go past it.

1:17.3

Sometimes it's just cool to just be like,

1:19.0

all right, let's take five, you know, or, you know,

1:21.6

like maybe people don't notice when I kind of cool it because I'm like oh wait a minute I got a phone call and then I just walk away from the meeting. It's just a way to bring it down.

1:30.0

You know you already have like four or five good grabs and you want to just

1:34.8

cherish them and stuff keep going you know what I mean I guess you can never have

1:39.4

too many good ideas but you could always pick it back up that's what I'm saying.

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