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During covid I hobbied into obsession of the fundamentals to commercial products and their consumption: an extension of the food-cake meditation about things and actions in home and self.
When I got covid (x-2021-07) a symptom was impatience. Impatience coupled with isolation, I awoke amidst a hoard of incomplete explorations and wanted out.
This is my Alice escaping Wonderland, sharing what I learned and might leave behind. For a glimpse of Wonderland, see [book2-answers.md]().
price for utility
Some things have the same utility, but different name.example-A popcorn bowl is a wide plant bowl and shallow bucket, etc.
Cheap, common household goods can add utility.example-example-
Many design habits do not cater to living.example-example-
Many methods are left on the table.example-
Discovering improvements in any of these categories fell back on paying attention to what things were made of, and what non-purpose-driven function they had, or as I called it, mechanical function.
example-Belts limit the distance between two joined points, and/or contain something within their length.
These begin to generalize to a mechanical geometry.
example-Belts and neckties are both rope.
goal
A few months before awaking…
I aim to undercut the price of function for quality daily living. This has the potential to span 3 consumer levels.
The middle: You and I are part of the conscientious middle-class (e.g. millennial), interested in reclaiming and customizing materialism for our needs.
The mission: To provide solutions for the industrious or struggling lower-class.
The image: High-end products appeal to and raise viability among the financially secure that want to signal social values and start conversations about materialism.
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