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The Japanese philosophy of
[Mingei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingei)
was another movement we should heed. Developed in the 1920's, it championed the beauty of everyday items made by “nameless craftsmen” with traditional techniques and local materials. This pushed against the prevailing cultural trends of moderinism that valued “high art” made by famous artists.
Folk Interfaces
Maggie Appleton
Interestingly, Ojisan TCG didn’t start as a competitive game. The first set of cards was designed purely for collecting, but the local children quickly turned it into something more dynamic. They began comparing stats and declaring, “My card is stronger than yours.”
Seeing this, the game’s creator decided to take it to the next level. New rules were introduced, allowing the cards to be used in actual battles. The objective isn’t to defeat the opponent’s card but to outplay it based on the characters’ skills and abilities.
Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town
Ynes Sarah Filleul
This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process knowledge - the knowledge of how to do things that can’t easily be written down. A lack of process knowledge is what prevents someone from being a great chef simply by following a recipe.
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