{"id":484,"date":"2004-11-21T04:55:34","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T09:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/21\/made-in-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2004-11-21T04:55:34","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T09:55:34","slug":"made-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/21\/made-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a446'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n Paul Graham has another essay up.   His last sets were not too bad but<br \/>\n this one I find has some interesting remarks regarding the general<br \/>\n character of America versus other countries when it comes to building<br \/>\n products:\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n But the just-do-it model does have advantages. It seems the clear winner for<br \/>\n generating wealth and technical innovations (which are practically the same<br \/>\n thing). I think speed is the reason. It&#8217;s hard to create wealth by making a<br \/>\n commodity. The real value is in things that are new, and if you want to be<br \/>\n the first to make something, it helps to work fast.<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Paul has some good incites on what makes the designs go well but I think<br \/>\n it also feeds back into the average consumer culture so Americans get<br \/>\n impatient regarding products.  DYSKE happens to mention an interesting<br \/>\n observation on technology and how we must push forward even if we&#8217;re not<br \/>\n really willing just to keep ahead.  You can read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyske.com\/default.asp?view_id=823\">here<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/usa.html\">Read Made in the USA<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyske.com\/default.asp?view_id=823\">Read DYSKE article on technology<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham has another essay up. His last sets were not too bad but this one I find has some interesting remarks regarding the general character of America versus other countries when it comes to building products: But the just-do-it model does have advantages. It seems the clear winner for generating wealth and technical innovations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}