In 1958, Leonard Read wrote a couple of pages on the seemingly mundane subject of how to make a pencil.
“I, Pencil”, though an essay, works like Robert Frost's idea of
a poem: it “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
If you had all the elements of a pencil right in front of you, could you make a pencil? It's not as easy as you might think. In fact, no single person on the face of the earth could do it without the help of countless others. And this is the key to understanding the world.
Here is a video adaptation.
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