The Build Log

How does it get to a person?

Station 5 of 5 on the road every made thing goes down. It goes in a box, and then it belongs to somebody.

How long
Nothing to do here yet, and the page says why.
You need
Nothing yet
Messy
No.
Crayon drawing of a tied cardboard box riding in the back of a delivery truck past a mailbox.
Station 5 of 5 · Ship · a grown-up calls it fulfilment

Where the two things stand here.

  • The JumboNot yetFlight 001 departs the living room · waiting on Dan
  • Max — Mascot Figure LampNot yetGold seal → run of 50 · waiting on Dan
  • LarryNot yetRun or not · waiting on Dan

Try this at the table.

One for each object. A greyed-out one is not us being lazy. It is a thing that cannot honestly be done until somebody clears the gate written on it.

1The JumboLocked

Flight 001, 25 December.

One nine year old, one airplane, one morning. Everything above this line has to work first.

You needEvery station above this one

IdeaA deadline is a date somebody promised out loud, and it does not move.

Opens when: Flight 001 departs the living room · Dan

2Max — Mascot Figure LampLocked

Fifty, numbered.

A run of fifty happens or it does not, and that decision gets published either way.

You needA decision

IdeaScale. Making one and making fifty are two different problems.

Opens when: Gold seal → run of 50 · Dan

3LarryLocked

Decide who a toy is for.

Larry can be built exactly the way one was in 1955 -- wood shavings inside, glass eyes on wire, metal pins in his joints. Built that way he is beautiful and he is not allowed to be a child's toy, because all three of those would come loose. Or he can be built the same shape with locking eyes and soft filling. Which one would you make, and who would you make it for?

You needAn opinion

IdeaA rule is somebody's answer to somebody getting hurt. Knowing which rule bites which part is most of the job.

Opens when: Run or not · Dan

That is the end of this one

The word for what you just did is fulfilment.

Fulfilment is what a grown-up calls this station on a resume. It is one of five, it always happens in this order, and skipping it does not save you the work. It only moves the work to a later station where it costs more.