Sharing gifts
Once again, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, when we gather with family and friends to reflect on the past year and look with hope to the new one. Even media outlets get into the game with their year-end reviews and new-year previews. (Shameless plug: Check out our 2021 Innovate Awards on page 46.) Any look back on the dumpster-fire year of 2020 will undoubtedly focus on the negatives. And there’s a cornucopia of crap to spotlight. But—for whatever reason—I’m a glue-bottle-is-half-full kind of guy, believing there are always good stories in the midst of all the bad. For example, about a month after the pandemic hit, we saw a spike in views on our YouTube channel at the time of year when views generally trend downward, as woodworkers transition…