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Old March 19th 17, 04:33 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On 3/18/2017 9:47 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:11:56 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 3/18/2017 2:29 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:08:44 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

Thing is, nobody's demonstrated any need for so much stationary "be
seen" light, beyond the usual "well, it _could_ happen" safety inflation
mentality.

True, but you're thinking like engineering, not marketing.


I do have too strong of a tendency to do that.
See http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-12-18
That has a place of honor on our refrigerator door.


I can see that this discussion is going to be all uphill. I'll be
merciful and uncharacteristically brief.

I worked for a company run by engineers that dug a hole for itself and
then jump in by doing very little market research and ignoring their
own marketing people. Designing a working product is only part of the
puzzle. Packaging, merchandising, and selling it in a manner that
customers will want to buy it is far more difficult because it's NOT
an exact science like engineering. This is one reason that engineers
fail to appreciate marketeers. It works the other way, where
engineers are pathological incapable of letting go of their design and
will continue to "improve" the design long after the customer has left
and gone elsewhere.

Incidentally, having one foot in each swamp, I had the dubious honor
of being called a traitor by both sides. I really didn't appreciate
the problem until that happened. Also, I tend to identify with
Dilbert's PHB (pointy hair boss), partly because I've lost enough hair
to look like him, but also because I can see myself in similar
situations. Being in the middle between engineering, marketing,
sales, and production is not my idea of fun job. I did it for a while
running my father's company and hated it.


Drivel:
https://trackmaven.com/blog/national-days-calendar/
Hmmm... Today (Mar 18) is "National Supreme Sacrifice Day".
I wonder if they mean human sacrifice?




Quoting the great Peter Drucker, "Nothing gets done until
somebody sells something." All the excellence of your
design is for nothing unless you can pay the bills and earn
a profit.

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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971


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