{"id":762,"date":"2004-11-22T00:02:28","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2004-11-22T00:02:28","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T00:02:28","slug":"made_in_usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Made in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/usa.html\">Paul Graham writes<\/a> about things we Americans are good at and not so good at&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Americans are good at some things and bad at others. We&#8217;re good at making movies and software, and bad at making cars and cities. And I think we may be good at what we&#8217;re good at for the same reason we&#8217;re bad at what we&#8217;re bad at. We&#8217;re impatient. In America, if you want to do something, you don&#8217;t worry that it might come out badly, or upset delicate social balances, or that people might think you&#8217;re getting above yourself. If you want to do something, as Nike says, just do it.<br \/>\nThis works well in some fields and badly in others. I suspect it works in movies and software because they&#8217;re both messy processes. &#8220;Systematic&#8221; is the last word I&#8217;d use to describe the way good programmers write software. Code is not something they assemble painstakingly after careful planning, like the pyramids. It&#8217;s something they plunge into, working fast and constantly changing their minds, like a charcoal sketch.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Graham makes some useful points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham writes about things we Americans are good at and not so good at&#8230;. Americans are good at some things and bad at others. We&#8217;re good at making movies and software, and bad at making cars and cities. And I think we may be good at what we&#8217;re good at for the same reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}