Archive for 2015

Never stop and ask for permission. The answer will invariably be “No.”

Went to take the dog for a walk. Get half way round the block then realise I left the dog at home.

If you don’t believe in your “startup” enough to buy me a coffee when you drag my arse across SF, why should I believe in it?

Studies are showing that we are happiest when we acquire experiences rather than possessions. An interesting article on Fast Company sums it all up. The science of why you should spend your money on experiences, not things This… x1000. “Life is built on experiences, not possessions.” Life Is Built On Experiences Building On Principles Possessive…

We all have that one friend who acts innocent but understands all the dirty jokes.

Visiting friends in the Bay. Drinking cider. Playing poker. I think I am losing my shirt tonight. Never play poker against venture capitalists who are also professional poker players. Bad idea. Really bad idea.

Some good assets on sale on the Unity 3D asset store this past week. The barrier to entry of building even a reasonably complex and good looking game prototype has gotten so low that I am still surprised by designers and developers who struggle with to release anything.

Rewriting a device driver for Android as part of client work. Haven’t had this much fun in years! That was not sarcasm. I had forgotten how much I enjoy writing assembler and low-level C code. The earliest part of my career was assembler, followed several years later by C. It is rare to be given…

Today is a day without pants. What part of your work is considered absolutely necessary to do the job? And what sacrifice would you make to be able to do without that necessary part?

Do I really need to keep this massive stack of Byte magazines from the 1990s? And that’s three hours I’ll never get back. Just spent them reading old Byte magazines. And out go the old Game Developer magazines along with them. How much of the stuff do you hold on to out of necessity? And…

Forgot how much I enjoyed Suzanne Vega’s music. Our lives are filled with an inward rushing of experiences and consumption, though we often return to familiar things due to nostalgia (which is very powerful). But when was the last time you returned to an unfamiliar thing that you had forgotten about?

LinkedIn has gotten way too spammy this week. People trying to get me to follow, click, like and subscribe left and right. Stop trying to consume the time of other people and start giving them some of yours to consume instead.

Writing out a client pitch for an iOS and Android project and wondering “Do I really want this job?” Is it the job I don’t want? Or is the the client I don’t want? Some days our minds are trying to tell us one thing, but we hear something else to justify our decision. You…

Just got done teaching a class. Exhausted. It is not the showing up or the standing up that is exhausting. What is exhausting is the having to be on-stage for forty or more hours in a week. On-stage, presenting, talking, being grilled about my knowledge. I figure if someone is capable of talking about a…

Faaaarrkkkk! Ran out of Groundworks coffee! Rushing out of door right now to replenish. Our brains become attached not to the substance, but to the brand. But we forget to question that.

There is waaayyyy too much drama in some people’s lives and I hate it when they try and spill all over my life. Life drama has a purpose. The purpose of life drama is too let us know who we should allow inside our lives. And who we should cut out of our lives.

Invited to stay at my friend’s fancy house in Hawaii. Very tempted to go. Hai-wee-wee! The best part about travel with good companions is the shared experience of the travel.

Shout out to the dog “Don’t be scooting on the carpet” whilst my wife is doing some yoga stretching on the rug behind me. It is easy to misinterpret a message that wasn’t meant for you.

Working on a new time wasting prototype in Unity 3D. Fun! Unity 3D (and other tools) make prototyping so quick these days I am surprised that more people don’t release their neat little ideas more often.

Jesus Christ how do you screw up coffee this badly?!? When we expect one thing and get another… that’s when we start to dislike your product. The way to get us to like your product, is either make it unsurprising compared to what our standards are, or make an entirely different product.