Seeing the Blubber for the Cows - The Vikings the Inuit

Ways of Making is a piece that I wrote a long time ago, having read in short succession Taiichi Ohno's book on the Toyota Production System and and Jared Diamond's book Collapse.  At the time I was also thinking very intensely about how the internet might change how things got made.  I realise that when I'm talking about "ways of making", I'm also talking about "ways of seeing" which is a very important concept in Lean thinking.

I find this story really, really scary.  And I think it's important to keep reminding myself of it, because it's saying that the way to save yourself can be right there in front of you, and you can still ignore it.  It also just goes to show the powerful desire that we have to carry on doing what we're doing  and how, in the right circumstances, this can be a more powerful desire than survival.

 

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