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A natural forest is illegible. A tangle of plants. This is inconvenient from the standpoint of harvesting lumber. How do you quantify yield? Can you even make a meaningful map of this... See more
Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State
Chauffeur Knowledge
After winning his Nobel Prize, Max Planck went on a tour, giving lectures at universities and institutions around the country. His chauffeur, after having heard Planck practice and deliver the talk so many times, had the entire thing memorized.
He jokingly asked Planck if he could deliver it at the final lecture. Surprising
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The same can be said about physical artifacts and about the set of rules that define formal institutional arrangements. Cars are machines that call for highways, and highways pretend to be public utilities while in fact they are discriminatory devices. Compulsory schools constitute a huge bureaucratic system; no matter how convivially a teacher tri
... See moreIvan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
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James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
“Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to pride of workmanship. The responsibility of supervisors must be changed from sheer numbers to quality. Remove barriers that rob people in management and in engineering of their right to pride of workmanship. This means, inter alia, abolishment of the annual or merit rating and of managemen
... See moreJohn Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
A World Class Transportation System: Transportation Finance for a New Economy
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“The pleasure in thinking and doing things well is such a deep-wired human pleasure . . . and it feels (to me) diluted when it’s linked to productivity.”