TTATT

TTATT is an acronym for "The Thing Around The Thing."

This term, first known to be used by Neal Thomison around 1998,refers to the meta issues which surround the topic in question.

In designing software, creating art or negotiating contracts oftenthe context and implications of the topic on the history andinterrelationships at play is often as significant, if not moresignificant, that the content of the topic itself.

ee also

*List of Internet slang