Ikuko Smith taught me that me that Japanese people judge others by the way they wring out a washcloth. \u201cIt says a lot about how a person was raised.\u201d That was a new thing for me to be self conscious about, but addressable. Unlike my technique for eating corn-on-the-cob. This Iowa boy is stuck in his ways, and I haven\u2019t been able to replicate Ikuko\u2019s typewriter-like technique. Returning to the washcloth\u2014 I appreciate this ethic. Many of us who care about neat cable management, clean figure design, pristine surgical preps, organized code, and so forth, share some set of values. It\u2019s not perfectionism\u2014 that\u2019s not the right word. It\u2019s some sort of respect for little, humble things. Respect for care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ikuko Smith taught me that me that Japanese people judge others by the way they wring out a washcloth. \u201cIt says a lot about how a person was raised.\u201d That was a new thing for me to be self conscious about, but addressable. Unlike my technique for eating corn-on-the-cob. This Iowa boy is stuck in…<\/p>\n