I, Pencil

July 21 2010, 3:05pm

I, PencilSource: http://www.thefreemanonline...Leonard E. Read (1898-1983) founded FEE in 1946 and served as its president until his death. “I, Pencil,” his most famous essay, was first published in the December 1958 issue of The Freeman. I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who ...    "[N]ot a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make [a pencil]."Brilliant, and so true. I don't know how to make any of the systems I build at work. I only make a small piece of the puzzle, building on the work of those who came before me.