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What the Eye Does, What the Mind Does · No. 3 · 2026.07.24
Nobody Ever Stands in That Spot
There's no fixed value, door to door
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What the Eye Does, What the Mind Does · No. 2 · 2026.07.24
There's No Way to Make It Match
The ruler decides the dimensions; the eye decides the shape
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What the Eye Does, What the Mind Does · No. 1 · 2026.07.24
The Eye Gets Fooled
Some things a ruler can settle. Some things only the eye can settle.
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A Second Look · No. 4 · 2026.07.22
Traditional Changho | Must It Be Built Exactly as the Ancestors Built It?
A "traditional changho," in this exact sense, has never once existed in this world.
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A Second Look · No. 3 · 2026.07.22
Traditional Changho | Why Is This Term So Blurry?
Is a "traditional changho" one built exactly as an ancestral carpenter built it?
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Back at the Bench · No. 1 · 2026.07.16
The Work of Pyeongmok
The empty spots get filled in, and only what's left over gets pushed out.
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Back at the Bench · No. 4 · 2026.07.12
Keep Changing the Form, and the Difference Gets Buried in Noise
Creation doesn't live in the material — it lives in the joinery.
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A Second Look · No. 2 · 2026.07.05
The Dokkaebi Has No Horns
That isn't a dokkaebi. It's Japan's oni (鬼).
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Back at the Bench · No. 3 · 2026.07.04
Still Building, Today Too
Carpenter by day, programmer and writer by night. Building with wood, building with code, building with sentences — in the end, it's the same work.
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Back at the Bench · No. 2 · 2026.06.27
Buddha's Palm
Doing this work, you start wanting to change something, thinking "this might just work" and turning it over in your head. But it's the Buddha's palm — however far you think you've gone, you haven't left it. You feel it in your bones — there's nothing new under the sun. Every joinery and fitting that's possible already exists within thousands of years of accumulated wisdom.
