# 504: Tentpoles in My Head

- Show: [Making It](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it)
- Published: 2025-11-07
- Length: 1h 03m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head
- Listen: https://making-it-with-jimmy-diresta-bob-clagett-and-david-picciuto.castos.com/episodes/504-tentpoles-in-my-head

## Summary

Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett, and David Picciuto discuss their current projects and the challenges of daily productivity. Jimmy details his plan to convert two shipping containers into an outdoor workshop and a complex chair project involving welding steel cuffs to walnut wood. Bob shares his experience navigating a building inspector's concerns regarding his new pool house and reflects on his son job-shadowing him. David admits to taking a break due to exhaustion and discusses the mental load of managing his own workflow without a boss.

## Chapters

- [0:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head#t=1) Introduction and Shop Maintenance
- [3:13](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head#t=193) Jimmy's Shipping Container Workshop Plan
- [9:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head#t=558) Jimmy's Walnut and Steel Chair Project
- [13:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head#t=784) David's Burnout and Need for Rest
- [17:33](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head#t=1053) The Creator Middle Class and YouTube Economics
- [23:09](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head#t=1389) Bob's Pool House and Building Inspector Encounter
- [35:42](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head#t=2142) Productivity Systems: Tent Poles and Sticky Notes
- [57:32](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-11-07-504-tentpoles-in-my-head#t=3452) Recommendations: Scorsese Doc, Lightsaber, and Affinity

## Topics

- [Industrial & consumer product design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/industrial-design)
- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Creator business](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/creator-business)
- [Certification & compliance](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/certification-and-compliance)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Affinity (company)
- Adobe (company)
- Canva (company)
- Northern Tool (company)
- EcoFlow (product)
- Harbor Freight (company)
- Whistling Diesel (other)

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