# Caught Off Guard by Something Completely Inefficient

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Podcast: [*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*](https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663)
Published: 2026-07-16T10:32:19+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/Caught-Off-Guard-by-Something-Completely-Inefficient-e3m5f5o
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Duration seconds: 158

## Resource

This episode takes a close look at the LEGO Technic life-size Koenigsegg build — 327,906 pieces, 9,407 hours, 43 professionals, and a finished car weighing 1,800 kg that actually drove at 111 km/h — and what that project suggests about the value of doing things the hard way. It touches on a specific detail from the build that's hard to forget: the challenge of connecting a black part to a black connector while trying to find the black hole to insert it into. A small, vivid picture of the friction involved when you refuse to cut corners. There's also a quiet observation about efficiency — how AI has made it genuinely easier to do almost anything faster now, and how that's a real good, while something human might still live in the opposite direction. The moon, flight, a LEGO car that goes 111 km/h. Most of those people probably heard, at some point, what's the point of that. A small reflection on the kind of time that looks like waste but doesn't feel that way looking back — and a reminder to keep making room for the things you find genuinely interesting, even when you can't quite explain why.

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