A couple of weeks ago, a new member of my team1 came to me with a question. I 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. She laughed and said that she felt like a tweenbot.
I wasn’t familiar with it, so she sent me to the website, which describes them as such:
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.
This is an awesome metaphor for being new to something. You 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.