Which by another obscure train of ideas leads me to another dictum, that of St. Thomas Aquinas: "The end of the artist [= maker] is the good of the artifact [= product]," where "end" is a technical term and refers to that of the 4 causes which is last in generation but first absolutely in the generation of things.
Just thought you should know. On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:49 PM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Skimming the posts on this thread, I was reminded of an early Grantian > dictum that appealed to me a great deal (I ended up quoting it in a MBA > program marketing paper): "We aren't market driven, we're product driven" > -- this after having read ad nauseam about "perception of value" and that > sort of shit. While I find many of Grant's products excessively whimsical, > or at least idiosyncratic in a direction that is not my road, I do favor > him for, basically, managing by or for the product, which means not > compromising about a design you think best, even if your idea of best is a > very minority idea. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsKU7Bn6t8RgwHrmn5LQr5hPm4s4jwHwW6MFL9AhwpvzA%40mail.gmail.com.
