{"id":540,"date":"2011-09-12T07:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2011-09-20T15:51:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:51:30","slug":"the-feeling-of-being-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/12\/the-feeling-of-being-new\/","title":{"rendered":"the feeling of being new"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, a new member of my team1<\/a><\/sup> came to me with a question. \u00a0I couldn’t answer it, and wasn’t quite sure who could, but pointed her at someone who I thought would either know the answer or know where she could get it. \u00a0She laughed and said that she felt like a tweenbot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t familiar with it, so she sent me to the website<\/a>, which describes them as such:<\/p>\n

Tweenbots are human-dependent cardboard robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, they rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is an awesome metaphor for being new to something. \u00a0You know that you have a destination, but you don’t know how to get there, and you rely on the people who you meet to read the flag and aim you in the right direction.<\/p>\n

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  1. Have I mentioned lately that we’re hiring? \u00a0Because we still are, even though we’ve grown so much already this year. \u00a0We’ve got interaction designer positions open; ping me<\/a> for more details. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A couple of weeks ago, a new member of my team1 came to me with a question. \u00a0I couldn’t answer it, and wasn’t quite sure who could, but pointed her at someone who I thought would either know the answer or know where she could get it. \u00a0She laughed and said that she felt like … Continue reading the feeling of being new<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nadyne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}