One of the things that always gives us a good laugh over here is when people pull out the “real world” card.
As in “you don’t understand the real world” or “your products would never work in the real world” or “you’ve obviously never worked in the real world.”
It’s thrown around so often that it must mean something obvious. So, in 10 words or less, what does “real world” mean to you?
Tony Yayo
on 10 Apr 07This is a story of 5 strangers, picked to live…
damn, out of words.
Martijn Engler
on 10 Apr 07Everything around me.
And that’s my real world, no matter what people tell me.
joe
on 10 Apr 07A place where people who can’t “get real” rule.
Matt
on 10 Apr 07When people stop being polite, and start getting real.
HA! 9 words.
Adam Lindsay
on 10 Apr 07A place where people reject change, no matter how beneficial.
A perfect 10. :)
Jim
on 10 Apr 07When people talk about the “real world”, it’s usually because they consider the other person to be saying something that’s nice in theory, but lousy in practice. For example, saying that it doesn’t matter if an application breaks when you go offline and you can just take time out to relax instead. Nice in theory, but in the real world, it means you have to stop working and your clients phone you up to shout at you for not getting things done.
Booga
on 10 Apr 07The color of my sons eyes will never be 2.0.
Justin Rich
on 10 Apr 07The universe where what you just said is wrong.
RC
on 10 Apr 07The real world is: Bullshit politics.
P Smith
on 10 Apr 07“What actually happens versus what is planned to happen.”
Keith
on 10 Apr 07In the context of this post and issue?
“The place where a thing is no longer a theory.”
Adam Spooner
on 10 Apr 07Life
Jeff Croft
on 10 Apr 07I sometimes use “the real world” to mean the physical world—that which is not made up of bits and pixels. But, it’s probably not the best use of the expression, as it does also have this other connotation wherein “the real world” refers to the reality of deadlines, limited resources, stubborn managers, fear of change, and the like.
Like most overused expressions in our language, you can’t really define what it means in 10 words or less. You usually do, though, understand what the person saying it means when it is said.
In language, as in design: context is everything.
Joe Fritz
on 10 Apr 07The real world:
“Where theory ends”
Although you shrug it off, there’s still possibly good feedback underlying that comment.
Can you guys do a blog post about the user testing you go through with your apps? I’d like to see what that process is like!
Chris Lindgren
on 10 Apr 07A equals A
John S.
on 10 Apr 07Jim said it best but broke the rules…so here goes…
“Where practical, diverse and likely fluid requirements supercede localized theory.”
10 :-)
Jeff Croft
on 10 Apr 07And, just to embarras the hell out of myself, let’s see i I can do this from memory…
“This is the true story of seven strangers, picked to live in a house and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.”
Yeah, I still watch that show. Damn, that’s embarrasing.
Matthew King
on 10 Apr 07The world where people send 80 MB email attachments.
Darren
on 10 Apr 07Hindsight is for blind visionaries.
brad
on 10 Apr 07Hell’s Kitchen
(Well, at least that’s what my stepmother always told me when I was growing up: “You don’t know what the real world is until you’ve lived in Hell’s Kitchen.” Who am I to argue with that?)
CJ Curtis
on 10 Apr 07The “real” world…
“More complex and difficult than our general perceptions of it.”
Tom von Schwerdtner
on 10 Apr 07The place where familiarity wins out over ingenuity.
Spiros Antonopoulos
on 10 Apr 07Breath, intent, perseverance, then death.
Eric Prugh
on 10 Apr 07Life outside the vacuum of idealism.
CJF
on 10 Apr 07Right next door to Theory where instead, nothing works.
Anton Macon
on 10 Apr 07Messy. Rainy. Sunny. Crazy. Organized. Bloody. Fast. Hot. Cold. Stressed.
Scott
on 10 Apr 07where the sh!t hits the fan
Josh Williams
on 10 Apr 07Somewhere on a beach on the north shore of Oahu.
That, and Bullshit Politics too.
Sean
on 10 Apr 07“you don’t understand MY world” or “your products would never work in MY world” or “you’ve obviously never worked in MY world”
heri
on 10 Apr 07angry and mean people who don’t care about theory
Nathan Clark
on 10 Apr 07I think we all need an acronym here: Reality – Every Autumn Leaves Inch Tto-the-ground. Yo! Or perhaps just: Reality is what we can well define with acronyms or bullet-point lists. Word.
Logan Koester
on 10 Apr 07Exactly when and where does this “real world” occur? – Almost Famous
(I’m not convinced it does)
Terry Sutton
on 10 Apr 07The real world is where I work. In this world people:
- triple click everything - use MS Word as their file browser and constantly ask, “Why won’t this image open?” - think a virus is going to physically eat their computer - still buy Palm Pilots and call them Palm Pilots - insist on wild clicking when their hotmail account loads slowly - ask, “What’s GMail” - say, “The word google isn’t a verb” and number one: - STILL send WordPerfect documents
Sorry, there’s no way 10 words was going to cover it. I read this blog, I follow and use your products, I think what you do is great, but in most of the ‘real worlds’ that I know, it would take eons to teach someone to use Basecamp.
Chris D.
on 10 Apr 07”...what does “real world” mean to you?”
The bitchslap I got when asking my wife that question.
Micheal
on 10 Apr 07Ten words if you don’t count the contraction of “it is”. It’s also a slight reference to “getting real”.
Jan
on 10 Apr 07Where Anna is.
John
on 10 Apr 07The airplane where you can’t use basecamp.
DanD
on 10 Apr 07Someone is paying for it and wants their say.
one word under!
Thijs van der Vossen
on 10 Apr 07Internet Explorer 6
Joe Grossberg
on 10 Apr 07“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
Curt Micol
on 10 Apr 07An often used excuse for those unwilling to take risks.
Dennis Eusebio
on 10 Apr 07“I’m so deep, three is four” - beau sia
mandy
on 10 Apr 07Actually, it usually works the other way around. The more often a word or phrase is used, the less likely it has a clear or commonly agreed upon definition. Look at words like “evil” or “terror” as they get increasingly thrown around today, for an example.
Erik
on 10 Apr 07Can’t remember who I’m stealing this from, but my favorite definition of the real world is…
Whatever doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.
Tom Webster
on 10 Apr 07The gigantic middle section of the bell curve.
Sammy
on 10 Apr 07What you see when you choose the red pill.
Then you tell them, “And since you don’t look like Carrie Anne Moss or sound like Laurence Fishburne, you don’t get to lecture me on what constitutes reality.”
Andyduncan
on 10 Apr 07I’ll do it in two: “My world”
What the person is usually saying is “in my past experience something like that wouldn’t have worked for one or a bunch of reasons I’m not able to articulate right now.”
Doesn’t mean it won’t work now, or wouldn’t work for someone else. But it’s also not entirely bullshit.
Benjy
on 10 Apr 07Appealing to the lowest common denominator…
Arik
on 10 Apr 07“Shut up.”
Thats the ticket to the real world. Talk less, do more.
Patrick
on 10 Apr 07“People create too much crap to work with one system.”
some guy
on 10 Apr 07Conforming to the status quo out of fear and laziness.
some guy
on 10 Apr 07Conforming to the status quo out of fear and laziness.
Kurt
on 10 Apr 07a place not definable in ten words definitions
Some Dude
on 10 Apr 07“Emotions of the user plus context of the task”
Derek DeMarco
on 10 Apr 07yeah what they said times 10!
Colin
on 10 Apr 07“dirty”
Bjørn Bulthuis
on 10 Apr 07The real world to me is a series of tubes.
beto
on 10 Apr 073 words: Bills to pay :S
!
on 10 Apr 07Rapidly Changing Requirements
German
on 10 Apr 07A place where the consequences of your actions are unpredictable
Luke
on 10 Apr 07The ‘real world’ is: Arguments for the existence of something beyond my experienced reality.
mgroves
on 10 Apr 07“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.”
Hmm, not quite 10 words. Let’s try this:
Theoretically, there’s no difference between theory and practice. Practically, there’s.
Doesn’t sound quite as clever that way.
Luis
on 10 Apr 07Reality is the pause in the ocean’s waves.
Jason Berberich
on 10 Apr 07Unpredictable. Unintended consequences.
Jon
on 10 Apr 07“A set of problems looking for solutions”
Scott C. Hughes
on 10 Apr 07Entry Words: Real World Function: FUD Text: 1: An environment bound by a person or groups limitations.
Scott C. Hughes
on 10 Apr 07Entry Words: Real World:
Function: FUD
Text: 1: An environment bound by a person or groups limitations.
a different john
on 10 Apr 07real is the perception of the world around you.
or
life outside of the internet theories and blog posts.
Dean Jackson
on 10 Apr 07It only takes three words to define “in the real world”.
“In normal usage.”
Jason L.
on 10 Apr 07Mostly harmless.
Scott
on 10 Apr 07Real world if where you better nightmares Get Real.
Mr. Winky
on 10 Apr 07Where it is actually only 5 inches, not 8.
Broom
on 10 Apr 07Useable, useful and desirable by your average, lazy, couch potato.
the secret
on 10 Apr 07The real world is a good place to live and apply “the secret.”
alan
on 10 Apr 07Where immediate maximized benefit trumps any other concern.
Sandy
on 10 Apr 07The world as I see it.
Joshua Poulson
on 10 Apr 07Our common objective existence.
Bryce
on 10 Apr 07A place where logic often loses out to greed.
Adrian Madrid
on 10 Apr 07Paraphrasing John Lennon, the real world is “what happens while you are making other plans”.
Morgan Schweers
on 10 Apr 07Greetings,
Fun becomes boredom, Boring things are necessary. Theory fails. Sadness.
— Morgan
MP
on 10 Apr 07A world that frequently eludes faithful representation by use cases.
Steve M
on 10 Apr 07“Real World is… working from a real problem to solution.”
(Most issues flagged as not “real world” are solutions to problems that are not very good dispictions of real problems.)
“Real World is… selling an answer to uninformed executive decision-makers.”
(Most issues never get solved because decision-makers are unwilling to consider the risk of not finding answers to the real questions.)
“Real World is… understanding the problem and cheapening the solution.”
(Most issues never get answers, only temporary bandages that are mended forever.)
“Real World is… reducing concern to the shortest attention span.”
(Most issues never get considered seriously if they cannot get boiled down effectively into a one quarter page executive summary.)
“Real World is… solving a problem yesterday without a budget.”
(Most issues don’t get solved in reality because people would rather kick-off a project that addresses an issue rather than actually appropriately address an issue.)
“Real World is… debunking a smoke and mirrors vendor demo.”
Elaine
on 10 Apr 07where computers cause anxiety and legal has the last word.
gwg
on 10 Apr 07An actual product with actual users.
Ben
on 10 Apr 07The ‘real world’ is … 1 – “Practical concerns of environmental immediacy” 2 – “Too close to put words between you and it”
I prefer #2 but I think most people are talking about #1
MP
on 10 Apr 07Almost a 5-7-5 haiku Morgan, I like!
Peter Cooper
on 10 Apr 07A place full of non-savvy idiots who don’t care.
Mark Gallagher
on 10 Apr 07Perceived constraints (sometimes real) in the work environment.
Go Cubs. (2 words left ;-)
Ralf
on 10 Apr 07That’s easy: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Welcome to the real world :-)
Seth Aldridge
on 10 Apr 07My mother can understand how to use it with little to no experience.
Nathan
on 10 Apr 07“I’m afraid you will succeed where I wish I could.”
MP
on 10 Apr 07Matt Mutz
on 10 Apr 07It depends…
Gil Freund
on 10 Apr 07The paycheck figure on WEB 2.0 companies cleaning service workers
Morgan Schweers
on 10 Apr 07Greetings,
Thanks MP! I tried, but it was off the cuff and I guessed at it.
10 words + haiku == embracing constraints, right? :)
— Morgan
John Topley
on 10 Apr 07Where just good enough is just good enough.
Jack Shedd
on 10 Apr 07The Real World: A place where most of the time, you don’t get your way.
Or such is how my mother described it to me.
Nate Cavanaugh
on 10 Apr 07Practical application.
Matt Grommes
on 10 Apr 07In production, with users using it.
Pretty simple to me. If you don’t have people using the thing, it isn’t real. But beyond that, there’s really no honest explanation of why people say that other than as a put-down since they’re implying they are in the real (hard) world and you aren’t.
As Bruce Schneier puts it:
In theory; theory and reality are the same. In reality; they’re not.
Barrett Bowen
on 10 Apr 07Contrast: You pay yourself to sit home and play. Dreamy!
Lame-O Middle Manager
on 10 Apr 07Because I said so that’s why.
Jamie Stephens
on 10 Apr 07“The life of man: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Thomas Hobbes The Leviathan
OverlyPessimistic
on 10 Apr 07The real worls is where murphy’s law proves itself correct
Geoffrey Sneddon
on 10 Apr 07When something can actually be used.
MP
on 10 Apr 07That which is not modeled properly by thirty seven signals.
/jk
;)
Kevin M. Keating
on 10 Apr 07Blogging. No, really. It’s just as real as any real.
David Smit
on 10 Apr 07THIS, here, NOW, sitting, eating, BREATING , Enjoying, LOVING, working, doing IT
Keith
on 10 Apr 07Get it done, get it done, get it done, yesterday!
wess stewart
on 10 Apr 07The real world is just a figment of your imagination.
Eamon
on 10 Apr 07Nobody discusses “the real world” in the real world. Nobody.
Miles
on 10 Apr 07Real World is:
- “Where committees decide what the right choice is”
- “Where fear of looking stupid trumps trying to improve”
- “Where the road to hell is paved with good intentions”
TAD
on 10 Apr 07The real world is objective reality as opposed to emotional, subjective “reality.”
NKP
on 10 Apr 07zion
MP
on 10 Apr 07Hey Miles—not all of us work for the government.
;)
Prophetess
on 10 Apr 07What is “the real world”?
My world. My limits. My fears. My complexity and complications.
Too complex for 10 words, or 10 worlds. :)
Álvaro
on 10 Apr 07“Don’t tell me your story, give me the meat”
My boss once told me...
on 10 Apr 07It’s not your fault, it’s just your problem.
Reuben
on 10 Apr 07Forget about what you want, embrace what you have.
James Thompson
on 10 Apr 07Where inflexible people and processes prove your best theories wrong.
Corey
on 10 Apr 07Mom and Dad the Buick, arguing about rotten tomatoes.
Corey
on 10 Apr 07Mom and Dad in the Buick, arguing about rotten tomatoes.
(woops, forgot the word “in” in the previous comment)
Alex King
on 10 Apr 07The real world: Everyone, everywhere, at all times.
Don’t design for that.
ron connor
on 10 Apr 07the ‘real world’ is;
1 historical 2 events 3 shaping 4 the 5 expectations 6 of 7 an 8 imagination-9 less 10 person.
or “illusion the future will be the same as the past. ”which is all WRONG. great post.
mig
on 10 Apr 07“nobody actually cares about your products and ideas, only themselves.”
I think this qualifies as real world in 10 words.
pj
on 10 Apr 07In the real world, you aren’t limited to 10 words.
carl LaFlamme
on 10 Apr 07the real world in one word:
“NOW”.
Addi
on 10 Apr 07I’ll have a go at it.
The real world is where exceptions are not handled gracefully.
tunaranch
on 10 Apr 07Somebody ask these guys. (See image in top right corner)
Steve R.
on 10 Apr 07Understand what, how or why. Choose one.
Des Traynor
on 10 Apr 07Here is mine, I think it’s quite fitting give the various bullshit circumstances it’s been used in on certain blogs today….
” The very last resort for someone out of good arguments.”
sixtoe
on 10 Apr 07This isn’t universal truth. It only works in your case.
Des Traynor
on 10 Apr 07Or possibly…
The business speak equivalent of But Will It Scale?
John
on 10 Apr 07The real world is where you are after you “get real”.
Sergio
on 10 Apr 07The real world… – take 1: The parts that are missing from your pretty model – take 2: The floor underneath your ivory tower – take 3: Expression that automatically demerits the speaker – take 4: Frustration between your idea and the pot of gold – take 5: Place were mediocre people like myself voice their opinion
Ahmad Alhashemi
on 10 Apr 07In the context of this post: My hypothesis as opposed to your hypothesis.
This reminds me of the quote used by Adam from Mythbusters: I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Sam Ryan
on 10 Apr 07The real world is predictable if you get lucky enough.
Brett N
on 10 Apr 07What is, versus what could, should, ought, might be.
Chuck Robinson
on 10 Apr 07The real world should be fun, fast, cheap, and easy.
Hmm, actually that sounds like a hooker.
greg h.
on 10 Apr 07TAXES, I payed through the nose last year!
Benson
on 10 Apr 07‘Real world’ is such a narrow perspective.
Within context, within environment, and through past experience may construct his/her “real world”.
I believe in Einstein’s three words.
Everything is relative.
RobertG
on 10 Apr 07the eventual home of every good and/or bad idea.
(generally used as a negative by those who either fear said world, have never truly enjoyed it, or are no fun to begin with.)
Richard Crowley
on 10 Apr 07Entropy.
garym
on 10 Apr 07That which is consistently beyond conception
Mark
on 10 Apr 07Whatever can come to be, caused in order to be
Ryan Allen
on 10 Apr 07Whatever I think because I’m so much better than you!
That’s the real world baby!!! :D
Ryan Allen
on 10 Apr 07Oh, and what Des Traynor said. Often used as a last resort in an argument, aka ‘Making it Personal’ fallacy.
Drew
on 10 Apr 07This is a silly question. Cheap post. We all know what the concept of “real world” means and defining it in 10 words or less is trivial. Please don’t waste our time.
Jeff
on 11 Apr 07“I haven’t got the charisma to convince others to do this.”
brett
on 11 Apr 07The Real World™ is where “anything that can go wrong, will”
Or is that Murphy’s Law?
Whateve.
Anonymous Coward
on 11 Apr 07The real world is undefined.
LisaE
on 11 Apr 07Right here, right now.
Dhrumil
on 11 Apr 07excuses
Daniel
on 11 Apr 07With reagard to this usage of the term, my definition would be:
“The real world is the sum of someone’s preconceived notions”
10 words
It is also a dumb reality-tv show, and the place Keanu goes when he’s unplugged from the Matrix.
john manoogian III
on 11 Apr 07messy. broken. beautiful. seven words is enough.
Tom H.
on 11 Apr 07Where college professors work before they go into education.
Gary R Boodhoo
on 11 Apr 07where apathy & pessimism masquerade as the status quo
Moses Ting
on 11 Apr 07The real world is my playground.
Copongcopong
on 11 Apr 07real world: “promises are broken, compromise happens.”
vslog
on 11 Apr 07One where five billion people live instead of just one
Murlin
on 11 Apr 07Everything
plffft!
on 11 Apr 07everything on this planet minus you
jurgen
on 11 Apr 07Perspective, Context, Perception.
Vike Shutov
on 11 Apr 07in real world nobody wants to think even a bit
in context of both sides of interface )
Alex
on 11 Apr 07The world beyond your imagination.
s
on 11 Apr 07“is a negligible bubble in the ocean of Universe”
Anonymous Coward
on 11 Apr 07To keep on the business topic the real world is “where people pay real money for what you offer”.
Rick Munoz
on 11 Apr 07Where people don’t have G5 Macs with 24-inch monitors.
maadmardigan
on 11 Apr 07the scales may be tipped now, but balance awaits patiently
josh
on 11 Apr 07where people who envy your life live, and are miserable.
Diego
on 11 Apr 07Let
Love
Rule
Diego
on 11 Apr 07Sorry for double posting, but it would’ve been more interesting if it had been: apply 10 tags or less to real world.
love, hate, human, earth, universe, life, death, dream, time
Ayka Yao
on 11 Apr 07Here now, nowhere tomorrow…
And/or
“Real” for none, some “real” for some, “real” for only one
Milton
on 11 Apr 07Where people see “wow” and think “great” instead of “nerds”.
Henrik Lied
on 11 Apr 07Welcome to the Social™.
mark rushworth
on 11 Apr 07Motivated by Pain and Pleasure with Pain being the biggest motivator.
Mike Pearson
on 11 Apr 07Data collected by my senses distorted by my prejudices.
Taylor Hughes
on 11 Apr 07176 comments about the “real world” and nobody has said the word “cubicle?” What about watercooler? Casual Friday? Synergize?
BenSky
on 11 Apr 07“real world” – Paying bills, bad things happening to good people and having to work!
Jonathan
on 11 Apr 07Don’t be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don’t talk.
Andrew Skegg
on 11 Apr 07“The real world is way more complicated than that!”
Naoise
on 11 Apr 07The offline world. Tee hee, 7 words left, oh wait….
James
on 11 Apr 07Real world? What? You mean meatspace?
Steven
on 11 Apr 07Life is like running with the Red Queen (Through the Looking Glass). Constantly running just to stay where you are. You have to run even harder to get ahead.
dracolytch
on 11 Apr 07The “real world” is the expectation that I should express myself in ten words or less.
cameron
on 11 Apr 07The place where an expert is not always technically savvy.
Seshu
on 11 Apr 07There is no one real world ! :-(
John
on 11 Apr 07Real World (reel-wurld)
n. Actual people in actual situations, interacting with actual systems.
Sascha
on 11 Apr 07The place that always differs from your imagination.
Clark Valberg
on 11 Apr 07I’ve found that the “real world” is typically synonymous with “my own personal world of insecurity and fear”.
As in "how dare you attempt to take up the reins of your own destiny, I never did - and it kind of pisses me off that you are".A good friend and I have coined a term we feel fits this attitude perfectly: “Begrudgal”
Juan
on 11 Apr 07The curious is what every different person has his own percepcion of real world. So real world means diversity.
Pingu
on 11 Apr 07“What I imagine is real, what you imagine is unreal” :)
Jamie Notter
on 11 Apr 07Where people agree with me but not with you.
Jeremy
on 11 Apr 07“Taxes are due and I’m reading a blog. Oh shit.”
(there… ten words. I’d say 3 of them are deductible. oh hell let’s say 5.)
MilesZS
on 11 Apr 07debt, bills, career struggles, but also love, beauty, and passion.
Omar
on 11 Apr 07Paraphrased from John Lennon:
It’s what’s actually happening while we’re busy making other plans.
Rob
on 11 Apr 07Ironically more people are “real” and direct in Second Life.
:)
Ulf
on 11 Apr 07the world described through existing data without considering disruptive change.
Hmm. Ten words, indeed. But so much more to say on that issue. For now I’m just gonna leave it at being glad that there are plenty of people who are willing to go further than this constructed cage called the “real world”
Greg
on 11 Apr 07A boot stomping on a human face, forever.
Rami Kayyali
on 11 Apr 07When people say “you haven’t worked in the real world”, they seem to mean “you haven’t been in a mind-numbing, senseless, endless job”.
Rami Kayyali
on 11 Apr 07When people say “you haven’t worked in the real world”, they seem to mean “you haven’t been in a mind-numbing, senseless, endless job”.
Aitor Garcia
on 11 Apr 07real word : “This prosaic and suffocant ambient around us.”
Allister Banks
on 11 Apr 07getting the job done, rationalizing happiness through toil for sustainance
kindof on topic: http://xkcd.com/c137.html
nice call for submissions, Internet Explorer 6! Ha!
Jim
on 11 Apr 07Lacking sufficient time for brevity, the real world is changing.
Ripley
on 11 Apr 07The real world is what you make of it.
Ritz
on 11 Apr 07A completely ridiculous joke… Seriously… Punch anyone who says that!
victor
on 11 Apr 07the real world is… “the other 70%”
z
on 11 Apr 0790% of everything is crap. thats the law. real life is dealing with that crap. and enjoying the 10%. if you’re lucky.
Dan
on 11 Apr 07Real World: “The perspective to which another tenaciously and ignorantly holds.”
David
on 11 Apr 07The Real World: Bludgeon used on ideas when you’re missing the point.
Six
on 11 Apr 07Pareto called, you are part of the 80 percent
Ryan Norbauer
on 11 Apr 07Where everyone realizes they’re just primates trying to have fun.
It’s not the same pejorative thrown around by the Important People, but if there really is a definition of the “real world,” I prefer this one.
Jeff Giddens
on 11 Apr 07Its what everyone thinks they own, but have no idea.
Juan Maiz
on 11 Apr 07Invoke the ‘real world’ is like…
“Whenever people say ‘We mustn’t be sentimental,’ you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add ‘We must be realistic,’ they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
Brigid Brophy
dusoft
on 12 Apr 07The place around you. Everything around you.
Charlie Triplett
on 12 Apr 07Reality conforms to the truth, not the other way around.
Thusly, the real world is:
The truth in action.
Brian
on 12 Apr 07I think real world depends on your perspective and your goals. Some will argue that it’s not real world to have a small development team with short design and development cycles, others will argue it’s not real world to have the bloat of a typical enterprise IT department.
I wrote more about that on my site: http://www.brianburridge.com/2007/04/11/the-real-world/
Dennis Wong
on 12 Apr 07My definition of “Real World” is “Chaotic Rule Spectrum”.
There are rules, but there are always exceptions which break the rules, making the rules invalid. For the rules which can never be broken, they are simply ambiguous definitions, cannot be validated by itself and therefore, unbreakable.
Friend
on 12 Apr 07‘Out of Mind’.
So the Matrix is not. And ideas that does not obey Real-World rules of action, such as: I will get rich, without working hard.
At where we are, being smart fooling the system, in such meaning that: you just simulate the rule of ‘obey Real-World rules of action’ is what Get you Real.
Yossef
on 12 Apr 07Where products are used, not just made.
griff
on 12 Apr 07The only constant is change.
Martin
on 12 Apr 07‘now’
Scott Meade
on 12 Apr 07Where people think technorati is some kind of pasta dish.
CC
on 12 Apr 07wake wash eat drive work drive eat sleep wake worry
Paul Levy
on 13 Apr 07“My experience equals the sum of the universe, yours doesn’t.”
himani225
on 13 Apr 07where there are no assumptions
random8r
on 13 Apr 07A relative, constructed mental space, used as proof in arguments.
random8r
on 13 Apr 07Do you mean the real real world or not? ;-)
Marc Duchesne
on 13 Apr 07The Real World : Where Dreams Never Come True.
Marc Duchesne
on 13 Apr 07The Real World : Only God Knows.
Marc Duchesne
on 13 Apr 07The Real World : When your girl-friend leaves you, there is no ’ back ’ button…
Marc Duchesne
on 13 Apr 07The Real World : the place which was not designed by a software developer.
Bryan Wilhite
on 13 Apr 07The real world refers to the concrete and abstract property or REAL estate owned by the authority figures lording over you.
When a person who does not own such property, a minion or lackey (or ass kisser), pulls the “real world” card they are effectively asking me to submit to the will of these property owners.
So it seems harmless to the properly assimilated. But, for the rest of us who dare to think outside of the box, the “real world” is no less than an appeal for slavery. So get your Confederate flags and keep it real!
Brian
on 13 Apr 07Somewhere short of ideal.
matt m
on 13 Apr 07Where complex, often illogical, constraints prevent simple plans from succeeding.
JT Helms
on 14 Apr 07Everything after school.
School, apparently, is the fake world.
Tom
on 15 Apr 07Not in Afghanistan, where I am.
6 words, how’s that? ;)
Jonathan Holst
on 15 Apr 07Whoa. http://holst.biz/notes/2007/01/19/the-real-world/
Kevin Magee
on 15 Apr 07Something I utterly avoid whenever possible!
Gordon Montgomery
on 15 Apr 07human
kailden
on 17 Apr 07world where definitions are not limited to 10 words max
Chris
on 17 Apr 07Helmuth Von Moltke would say, “on the battlefield”
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