Yes, those are the secrets to happiness.
(Well, at least the soldering part.)
I was fortunate and mildly terrified to explain all of this before a group of ridiculously smart people in November at the Newsgeist conference run by the Knight Foundation and Google at the Cronkite School of Journalism in Phoenix.
(The "Institute of Higher Learning" mentioned here is the New School's Journalism + Design Program, where I'm lucky to be an instructor.)