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Eric Siu tried woodcarving after a team member inspired him and found it meditative and low-stakes. He describes how a new hobby lets him step away from business and satisfy curiosity about how things work.
Eric Siu tried woodcarving after a team member inspired him and found it meditative and low-stakes. He describes how a new hobby lets him step away from business and satisfy curiosity about how things work.
You're carving wood, right? So how do you happen to find all these new habits? This insatiable curiosity about how all things work. I'll get into a little side hobby or a side quest. This whole carving wood thing came— one of the guys on my team, he's one of our creators, he got into it and he texts me and he was like, I just spent 4 hours carving wood. Like he made a spoon. Yeah. And I'm like, okay, cool. Let me grab some of these like carving knives and this wood. I sit down with him. I spent 4 hours making a spoon, didn't look at my phone. And then I left with the spoon, which was terrible spoon, but I left and I was like, I feel so good right now. Like, what's going on? And so to me, it's like a way to get away from the business a little bit and just like have a thing that's pointless in a way. There's no point besides just doing it. It feels meditative. Yeah, you got to have something like that, right?
