Consider how much of nature's design comes from dealing with constant stress, like wind pushing on those branches for years. That pressure shapes where the strength needs to be, and we miss that controlled environment in a workshop. It makes you wonder if the best design ideas aren't about adding things, but about learning what forces to let shape your work over time, like a kind of passive learning. Maybe we should schedule more time just to watch things and less time in formal design meetings.

Used to be all for the new digital stuff, thought it was the future. Had almost the same thing happen with a sensor on a truck lug nut, just locked up and blinked at me. Now my old beam-style wrench lives in my top box again, never lets me down. Sometimes simpler really is better when you just need the job done.