Greater Than Code
123: BOOK CLUB! Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Persig
05:21 - Persig’s Two Paradigms: Classical and Romantic
11:50 - What is beautiful?
15:49 - Quality
33:44 - Emotional Motivation
41:13 - Balancing Objective and Subjective Measures of Quality
Reflections:
Janelle: A shared definition of quality and creating bridges.
Bryan: When you recognize you have two different categories of measures of quality, the team starts to need guardrails to push the group towards just a couple of agreed upon things.
John: Taking the different value systems, and fusing them together in some degree that can help unify groups into single directions and sets of values.
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