Revisiting the Spillway

摘要

As much as I enjoy seeing my own projects come to fruition, there's something wonderful in seeing watershapers I know achieve great results in their work. I admire and encourage the effort, especially when the outstanding outcomes are the result of a professional's concentrated efforts to improve his or her own skills. This is one of the reasons I teach: I take great satisfaction in sharing my techniques, sensibilities and the conviction that what I do is special, a true form of art. Sometimes I speak with former students - watershapers in their own rights - who have, as a consequence of what they've learned, completely reconsidered the nature of their businesses and redirected their approaches. Other times, I see smaller-scale improvements that result from modest gains in capability, such as zeroing in on a product I've discussed with them or a material they've added to their bags of tricks.