CHAPTER 9
ETHICS
The Hippocratic Oath of Product
During the summer of 2017, my family and I were on a road trip through Portugal and we came across a small town, Batalha, where a major attraction was a beautiful Dominican monastery, Mosteiro da Batalha, built in the early 1400s.
One room in particular was an architectural marvel: it had a star-vaulted ceiling spanning 19 square meters with no central support! Architect David Huguet had designed a feature that had never been done before, and the work was so risky that only condemned prisoners were used to build this ceiling. When the vaulted ceiling was finally built after two failed attempts, Huguet had to sleep under it for two nights to prove that it was safe. He had to take responsibility ...
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