What makes Berry's observation sharp is his refusal to treat work as mere transaction—he's arguing that craftsmanship itself requires a kind of intimacy, a mutual understanding between maker and audience that extends across time. The "extended shared world" isn't just about shared values; it's about assuming your customer or colleague will still be around tomorrow, that your work matters in a context larger than quarterly profits. When a carpenter builds a staircase to last fifty years instead of five, she's betting on that extended world existing—and in doing so, she creates it. That's why so much contemporary work feels hollow: we've stopped assuming we'll answer for it.