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Simon winchester is the author of, among other books, the perfectionists: how precision engineers created the modern world. simon winchester, pleasure to have you on. thanks a lot. why did precision become so important in the industrial revolution? it started actually, we know the birth date, may 4th, 1776. someone wrote to me the other day and said, you do know the significance of may 4th is star wars day, may the 4th be with you, this is not my joke. but may 4th, 1776, james watt, couldn t make cylinders properly. and a man created a cylinder, an enormous thing, and the piston watt had made fit inside it perfectly such that no steam leaked out. ....
Rise of i think there was a book called the rise of the analog, which talks about human beings falling in love again with the imperfect. a beautifully tailored suit will now often have a line which is actually quite imperfect. deliberately. to emphasize this is not machine-made. to remind people. my wife is japanese, i go to japan and korea a lot. in those two countries uniquely, they award to usually elderly people who have spent their lives working with wood or ceramics or lacquerware, the title of living national treasure, for which they get pensions and reverence, to say to them, yes, we make precise things, canon and nikon and all the rest, but we have our feet on the ground, we worship bamboo, we worship, as you say, the analog, hand-made watches, ....
Can we appreciate the beauty of the imperfect? simon winchester is the author of, among other books, the perfectionists: how precision engineers created the modern world. simon winchester, pleasure to have you on. thanks a lot. why did precision become so important in the industrial revolution? it started actually, we know the birthdate, may 4th, 1776. someone wrote to me the other day and said, you do know the significance of may 4th is star wars day, may the 4th be with you, this is not my joke. but may 4th, 1776, james watt, who invented the steam engine, couldn t make cylinders properly. and a man created a cylinder, an enormous thing, and the piston ....
But i don t really i could have never predicted when i was excited about him becoming speaker of the house, i could never have predicted that could it have ended this way again with a wimper where he had a president just run i was talking to a member in the republican caucus that just can t believe how he s s subjugated himself to donald trump time and time again. it s a look into what happens when an idea person in the republican party and paul ryan has billed himself for many years as somebody who cares about policy. i m a powerpoint guy. i look deeply into what this means and fiscal conservatism. has his career absolutely co-mingled with trumpism. it s such an imperfect and horrible and just really ....
Put out two very different benchmarks for success. yeah. i guess i m just apprehensive that progressives are having seen the way conservatives and republicans responded to the iran deal are going to respond in kind to an incomplete, imperfect although i think progressives are hardwired to think talking is better. to me, it s this really deeper question about can you take if the president of the united states donald trump today said he wanted he was going to get behind single payer, you would say this is going to end in tears. yes, in the abstract, sure. in abstract. but do i want this individual to carry out this thing? the answer would be you would be totally rational to be skeptical about that. absolutely. i think that s more the situation people find themes. sue mi terry, nick chris of ....