Award winning designer and teacher based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Adam's interests encompass design, craft/small to medium scale fabrication, as well as industrial production of culinary knives and tools as well as modern homewares and furniture. In our interview, we touch on the perils of sound editing, both in this podcast, and in the improv comedy world; the joy in the learning process; Japanese knives; on learning something new late in life; on being attracted to work, and what makes work attractive and why a (not very grimy) metal shop is a far better work environment than a day job; adapting fluid and dynamic teaching strategies to the ways people learn; the advantage of overconfidence when learning something, and many other topics; social hierarchy, kindness, and revenge, and the life lessons of Gary Larson. You can see some of his work at www.mksknife.com