But peaks don’t appear on their own.

Two parts of the argument, read side by side.

We have been looking at the peak

Looking at the peak

Success has a way of drawing our attention to what is visible. We admire the factory, the company, the product or the technology because those are the things we can see.

In this story
  • Taiwan’s greatest export
    • Part II
      • Looking at the peak
      • Further reading
    • Part III
      • The question
      • Further reading
    • Part IV
    • Sources
A small workbench in a bright Taiwanese workshop seen from slightly above: a magnifying lamp, a half-assembled circuit board, labelled parts

The question that changed everything

The question

The more I thought about Taiwan’s story, the more I realized I had been asking the wrong question.