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Ed Catmull on outsourcing

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by vips • 17 years ago

8 1 17 years ago

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tptacek• 17 years ago

This quote ends with a summation of Crawford's _Shop Craft As Soulcraft_, a so-so book from a guy who left a directorship at a DC think-tank to start a shop fixing old motorcycles. The way Catmull phrased it, I'd be surprised if he hadn't read the book.

One of Crawford's points is that as we differentiate and specialize manual labor out of our economy, we lose an aptitude (mechanical literacy, self-sufficiency, the inclination to tinker before giving up on objects) that is subtly important to all the non-manual things in the economy.

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