Interesting Snippets from 2012-06-15

• Schumpeter: Zen and the art of carmaking | The Economist

  In this pristine world making things is considered more virtuous than selling them. This is not only a Japanese trait: in Silicon Valley, too, hackers prefer not to mingle with mere hawkers. But in Japan engineering is revered with an almost religious passion; indeed, the idea that anything can be lovingly tinkered to perfection owes something to Zen Buddhism. Far less attention is given to marketing.

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