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elizabeth  ·  3377 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How did you find out what you wanted to do in life?

Do you know Jamie Mantzel? He's a pretty eccentric guy that was living in the forest building a giant spider robot and now he's living on some island somewhere building solar powered boats and whatnot.

He does youtube videos about all that:

https://www.youtube.com/user/JMEMantzel

There is basically no production value but the videos are so genuine is does not even matter. He's been doing that for many years so watching it all is unrealistic but it's nice to see glimpses of a person's life that made this kind of decision and stuck with it. He's also really mechanically enclined and it's amazing how he figures out problems.