How to work better
From Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
- Do one thing at a time
- Know the problem
- Learn to listen
- Learn to ask questions
- Distinguish sense from nonsense
- Accept change as inevitable
- Admit mistakes
- Say it simple
- Be calm
- Smile
These feel like good principles for all sorts of work, especially work that involves other people.
Apparently the artists appropriated this from a sign in a factory in Thailand in the 1980s. Later they painted it on an office building in Zurich and then opposite a factory in Lower Manhattan.
