Most making problems happen before anyone chooses a method. I built this course because I kept seeing the same pattern: people reaching for extraction, formulation, or tools without first understanding what they're working with. When things failed, they blamed the process—when the real issue was upstream. This course is about slowing that part down. We’re going to focus on how materials behave, how to read them, and how to make decisions on purpose, so what you make is repeatable, not lucky.