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Many craftsmen do not get the tools they could wish for.

Your craft is your personal responsibility; you use your tools, they don't use you. So, your product is the result of what you do, not what your tools do. Limitations of your tools leave you with greater responsibility to ensure results that satisfy whatever standard you work to.

Blaming your tools for bad results tells people much more about you than about the tools.



First of all, we are not craftsmen. We are more like factory workers. Ford factory worker #515 had no say in the 1000 ton machine just installed in the factory. He just had to make his part of the car.

We delude ourselves into thinking we're all Picassos when we're just house painters, at best.


That also is a matter of choice. Curiously, the more you get paid, the more latitude you get.


It'd be more accurate to say not many of us are craftsmen. (Craftspeople?) There are still some ways to make money by through creative, open ended development, they've just always been on the rare side.




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