Physical things do not simply follow our instructions; we have to shape them in accordance with their intrinsic properties. Sometimes it feels like we have to sneak up on our materials and trick them into doing what we'd like.

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It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the Japanese pencil industry—