Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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"It's not the motorcycle maintenance, not the faucet. It's all of the technology they can't take."
People can't seem to handle or want to be involved with the technology they are using. This goes for people who avoid becoming knowledgable in a particular area. I'm not interested in learning x because I will never need to do x. Or x technology is outside of my area.
Developers should not impose self ignorance.

After talking about inept repairmen on his motorcycle: "Why did they butcher it so? These were not people running away from technology… these were technologies themselves. They sat down to do a job and they performed it like chimpanzees. Nothing personal in it. There was no obvious reason for it."
Lack of interest in their work. Lack of thinking or investment in their profession.
Issues that were noticed:
- Not thinking (listening to music) "You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio"
- Speed - Sloppy work for more money
- No identification with the job - "No saying, 'I'm a mechanic'. - No after work thinking about their work.
- Detachment
"When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things"

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"You can make an art out of anything. I think that the making an art out of your technilogical life is a way to solve the problem of technology."