Thank you all for your comments. I only have two things left to say: One, Steven, your class sounds like precisely the sort of journey I'd like to see junior designers take. So I apologize for my lack of awareness of it, and therefore my characterization that no such education was happening.
Dave, I completely and thoroughly reject your characterization of me as a thought leader. I don't believe in thought leaders. It's a debased and an offensive concept. In my view we all have the responsibility (and burden, and joy) of thinking for ourselves. So, yes: my writing can occasionally be unsupported, tendentious, splenetic, ill-informed, or simply driven by my own issues and problems. In other words, it's a blog. Like I always say, I'm delighted if anyone gets anything at all out of it...but I write it for me. And by my lights, then, you don't have the right to say or imply that I have some kind of special responsibility by dint of my "thought leadership." I *am* just another voice, and clearly (in this instance at least) one tangential at best to this list's sense of the world and its role in the world. I'd rather you, or anyone, understood my writing as I intend it to be understood: as one human being's opinion, for whatever that is worth. Sometimes that will be "not very much," and as I've indicated above, I'm OK with that. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from ixda.org (via iPhone) http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47932 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
