If I can summarize what I learned from that first scatty, ADHDish, mostly-looking-at-the-pictures encounter with this current of thought and praxis, it was that you didn’t have to accept the material world of tooling and shelter and vehicles as some eternal, received truth. People who felt left out of the mainstream deal could, with some effort, design themselves genuine alternatives. And these alternatives were generally what we’d now call lightweight, modular, extensible & user-configurable.