Faking it = doing it

The indispensable ProfHacker on how truth begins with fiction in the academy:

Faking it is a crucial way to get anything accomplished. All Many abstracts for conferences or proposals for books or sabbaticals or anything else are written before the project described therein is finished, or sometimes even started. You build a constituency for a new course in part by positing its existence, and then trusting that a successful iteration of it will lead to even more interested students. 

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mcburton says:
October 15, 2009 at 9:13 am
yup, that sounds about right.
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