03 January 2017

Worried about competing with...

...China's "economic miracle?"...
The prevailing attitude is chabuduo, or ‘close enough’. It’s a phrase you’ll hear with grating regularity, one that speaks to a job 70 per cent done, a plan sketched out but never completed, a gauge unchecked or a socket put in the wrong size.

Chabuduo is the corrosive opposite of the impulse towards craftmanship.