{"id":249,"date":"2026-02-04T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:11:19","slug":"making-without-intention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Making With(out) Intention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My favorite quote from this video is: &#8220;By making trying to make them proud, I then end up making myself proud.&#8221; I like the thought of that virtuous cycle &#8212; building something to help others, which helps me, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Making With(out) Intention - Kayte Sabicer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oPqFrLZnHeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The video talks about how to get yourself unstuck when you&#8217;re in the &#8220;Short, Stall, or Flood&#8221; portions of making. As she says, &#8220;If you want to make something, make something.&#8221; And basically, it&#8217;s lowering the stakes. Just gather cheap materials and make something. Or, help a friend on their project. The next possibility is a &#8220;maker hang&#8221; where makers gather every once in a while. And the last is if you&#8217;re feeling the &#8220;stall&#8221; coming on, put out a call to gather and talk through what&#8217;s going on with your making, primarily to talk through things, not so much to make progress on your project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to have a creative community in the future that might be able to help me along the way. I think I&#8217;m building it, but it&#8217;s hard to be patient in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite quote from this video is: &#8220;By making trying to make them proud, I then end up making myself proud.&#8221; I like the thought of that virtuous cycle &#8212; building something to help others, which helps me, too. The video talks about how to get yourself unstuck when you&#8217;re in the &#8220;Short, Stall, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemplation","category-inspiration","category-interesting","category-quotation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}