“Air Guitar” education
Written on 6 Jul 2008
From a remarkable discussion on Mark Guzdial’s blog, in the comments to this post, Alan Kay (the original Grumpy Old Man) writes:
But I think the principle is clear and simple: there are thresholds that have to be achieved before one can enter various conversations and processes. “Air guitar and attitude” won’t do.
“Air guitar” is a metaphor for choosing too tiny a subset of a process and fooling oneself that it is the whole thing.
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