Showing posts with label Yvon Chouinard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yvon Chouinard. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2020

"Let my People go surfing" by Yvon Chounaird

 

Outdoor Sports teaches Yvon that there is a limit. But the thrill that you aim in outdoor sports  is " live for those moments where you are right on the edge, but you do not go the edge.


Durability for Products:


Yvon may share the same obsession with having as little product lines as Steve Jobs:

This is why I am inspired to be a repairman or at least attempt to assemble many of my IKEA Furniture and to sign up for Repair Kopitiam:


A 100% cotton shirt is only 73% cotton:


 

Why we need the government to do what the people cannot do and even in Patagonia, Environmental Values are still a hard sell - maybe also pointing to why you cannot wait for the consumers to demand:

1% sales Tax, not after finding all the tax loopholes:


Evil can just be the absence of Good: 

If you have the ability, resources and opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.



No dancing girls on top

You Live only Once