We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability..

Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consult….

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone.

When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race t….

Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify ex….

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards..

Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their c….

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination..

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake..