I recently finished "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and this post resolves an issue that the book did not settle for me: What is the relation between quality and our own doings? The book made an impressive point why Quality is an essential part in the things you create and why it is so hard to identify it as something concrete. But I failed to clearly see what drives a human to create something of quality and to know when you make something that has Quality. It seems that Passion is, what enables one to distinguish your own products in terms of quality and to strive for a higher quality in what you are doing. To me, this explains why passionate people are rarely satisfied with what they make.

The post makes a wonderful connection between Quality, which became an increasingly abstract thing for me, to something very concrete.