My dad spent his career as a tool and die maker; working on machine and metal cutting tools to support manufacturing and pre-production processes. While I never acquired these skills, I appreciated the benefits of this experience—when we broke something, we spent the time understanding the fix and typically went down to the shop and made a replacement part. As I grew older and began to find my way in the world, it occurred to me something had changed. We no longer fixed things; remediation evolved into a simple swapping of component, without the diagnostics and troubleshooting I had observed as a youth.

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