Sublime

is not clear whether Blanc ever achieved such uniformity himself. If so, it would have been on a limited basis in small production lots. He did not use machinery, but rather promoted hand-shaping and filing parts with the aid of precise dies and jigs, or molds, which he may have learned from Swedish clock makers.) Jefferson pressed Blanc’s methods

Disruptive innovation comes from a moral conception of a good life that, if we’re not careful, affirms racing toward the new (in a short present), which alienates us from one another, the world, and ultimately transcendence.