Vent: That old factory tour wrecked my faith in digital drafting
I visited a shut-down textile mill on a road trip and saw the original hand-drawn schematics still on the walls. The pencil lines were shaky in spots, with coffee stains and notes scribbled in the margins. It hit me that our perfect CAD files have no story, no mess, no life. Now I force myself to rough out every concept on grid paper before I even turn on the computer. Yeah, it adds time, but the ideas stick better and feel more real. Anyone who says pure digital is progress hasn't seen the soul in those old drawings. We're trading craft for convenience, and it's making our work sterile.