{"id":37889,"date":"2017-04-08T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37889"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:02:06","slug":"qotd-fake-perfection-in-woodworking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/08\/qotd-fake-perfection-in-woodworking\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Fake perfection&#8221; in woodworking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After the 2016 election, I did what every sane American did: I eliminated the annoying people from my social media feeds on both the left and the right who had become singularly obsessed with politics. And then I took another healthy step: I eliminated feeds from the \u201cfake perfectionists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who are the \u201cfake perfectionists?\u201d You probably know them. They are the people who post beautiful photos of their work on social media and never seem to experience a single glitch. And, in the cases of schools with \u201cfake perfectionist\u201d feeds, they crow about the beauty, detail and perfection of the work being taught there.<\/p>\n<p>To which I say: Hogwash.<\/p>\n<p>Woodworking is about failure. In fact, I consider successful projects to be ones that simply endured less failure than usual. Stuff goes awry. Wood chips out. Table legs go into the burn pile. If you aren\u2019t making errors \u2013 of the hand or of the mind \u2013 you are a robot and need to have your firmware downgraded.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Schwarz, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularwoodworking.com\/woodworking-blogs\/chris-schwarz-blog\/failing-daily-since-1993\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Failing Daily Since 1993&#8221;, <em>The Christopher Schwarz Blog<\/em><\/a>, 2017-03-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 2016 election, I did what every sane American did: I eliminated the annoying people from my social media feeds on both the left and the right who had become singularly obsessed with politics. And then I took another healthy step: I eliminated feeds from the \u201cfake perfectionists.\u201d Who are the \u201cfake perfectionists?\u201d You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,53,41,161],"tags":[593],"class_list":["post-37889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-woodworking","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9R7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37890,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889\/revisions\/37890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}