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"You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both." - John Ruskin

There's been a decent amount of talk here at oyoaha about John Ruskin's 100(+)-year-old 'axiom' and how it relates to what we are trying to be and do. At the very least it explains the felt tension about what we don't want to become as we engage with the culture of design. (More on that another time...)

"Precision from a human sacrifices the part that makes him human - the ability to contemplate." - JR

So what about process? What about the kind of "by Process" work we want to implement? We find ourselves, via this little firm, surprisingly still creating/adjusting/improving our own internal process to a greater degree than expected this far down the road. We thought we'd be further along by now. But will our own, internal process enable us to develop and grow and thus be 'human'? Or are we just effectively re-inventing a system of precision?

At least we know which we'd prefer...