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Tom Carlson

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Writing since August 2026

Carpenter. Apprenticed under a man who measured people the way he measured wood: twice.

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Tom Carlson
@tomcarlson · Aug 12
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What the apprenticeship was actually teaching

Walt ran his crew with two rules: measure twice, and never let a man leave a job site embarrassed. I thought the first rule was the trade and the second was manners. Took me a decade of running my own crew to realize I had it backwards. — Wood forgives a bad cut. You buy another board. But a young…