While not directly related to printed circuit boards, this piece from Time Magazine on the Japan’s Uniqlo shows how one entrepreneur had the vision and courage to cast off decades of cultural aversion to risk to build one of the largest clothing companies in the world.

Founder Tadashi Yanai, now 64, took over his parent’s small-town clothing business and, realizing it would end up in bankruptcy without change, remade the entire company.

“Innovate or die,” Yanai reminds us. It’s a lesson that’s absolutely true in PCBs as well.