The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone
Richard SennettOur modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craftโs anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also to slow down labor. It is not about quick transactions or easy victories. That slow tempo of craftwork, of taking the time you need to do something well, is profoundly stabilizing to individuals.
Richard SennettCraftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.
Richard Sennett