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detour Nerve · 15 minutes · free

Watch a workshop through its window

“Standing at a stranger's window feels like loitering for the first minute. Then you stop watching a person and start watching a skill, and you could stay an hour.”

The Recipe

  1. Find a workshop that works behind a street window near you: a cobbler, framer, tailor, watch repairer, whoever you walk past.
  2. Stand where you can see their hands and watch one whole task from start to finish, without your phone.
  3. Before you go, name to yourself the single step you could not have guessed from the outside.

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