Some thoughts of mine, without too much refining in place.
It takes a lot of work I’ve had a conversation with a colleague recently, in the context of running a complicated analysis on a complicated KPI (key performance indicator, but I sometimes call them “keeps people irritated”, as they tend to only be brought up when people are in a bad mood, and correlation in this case might imply causation). As we were discussing the “cost of entry” of gaining any…
Press one ‘I can’t figure out what to do with it, you know?’ The question was a stylistic resource, product of wanting to add a conversational gesture to the monologue. Something that would indicate to the listener that their opinion was being sought. But it also provided the strategic pause for her to draw a long breath from her cigarrette, enjoying the high of the nicotine spreading though her…
(This is a continuation of Bolt) Where the wild things are His entire understanding of American society (and geopolitics by extension) was informed by Metallica. Everything could be categorized into one of two neat piles: From within, the facts that he knew about himself, his family and his hometown. Everything else fell into the Metallica related cosmos that kept ever-expanding. The micro and…
Righty tighty “Look, I’m not saying we should kill him. That’d be inhumane. But a sumbitch like him could stand trial without all of his toenails attached, and I’d reckon we’d feel a lot better about the whole thing if it were to happen.” The bulgy guy spoke with the candor of a man who was sure of being on the right side of things, his eyes darting from the wrench on the table to the grim face of…
(This is a continuation of Now loading) There’s no apocalypse like the Korean Apocalypse I don’t remember for sure how much more we developed our game, IPO (no, there was no initial public offering). I recall I fell out of touch with Hookdump over something petty, and I felt like my attempt at making a game had gone nowhere. But had it really? For one, I had learned a little something about…
Early game When I was around 12 or 13, there was a popular game in Argentina making the rounds in every internet cafe. It was free, online, had very low requirements, and best of all, it was made by a local team. The game’s name was Argentum Online.
My current job has an almost obsessive relationship with Japanese production principles. If my employer was a person, they’d approach you, unprompted, to tell you why katanas were superior to European folded steel. Working here has meant expanding my vocabulary by a lot to a great extent. Beyond the usual corpo-speech of taking conversations offline, so we can circle back and refocus our efforts…
I’ve been struggling with feeling motivated for a while now, when it comes to work. And as much as I’d like to say it’s my current job, the reality is that there’s an undercurrent that has been building up throughout the years, and my present situation is just circumstantial at this point. Should I pack up and leave and find the golden land of endless opportunities and cool-people™, my current…
I’ve had a rocky relationship with commitment. For the most part, this has been confined to my professional activity, Which is to say my most enduring trait in the working world has been to quickly realize that I could find something better out there, that whatever value tag I had attached to myself on the last negotiation with reality wasn’t enough, and then I was ready to move on to the next…