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"We Only Hire Seniors", And Other Mistakes
How structure creates sustainable velocity.
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What Is Yak-shaving?
A miserable little pile of secrets.
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April 2024

Premature Optimization and Rapid Prototyping
Is 'working' good enough?
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September 2023

The Parable Of The Woman And The Gate
On making changes without context.
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February 2023

How To Recover Your Perforce Admin Account
Bypassing all perforce security and authentication when you can't log in at all.
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Christina Pollock 死神
"AI Fans" Have No Imagination
They understand neither AI nor game development, yet lecture us on both.
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Christina Pollock 死神

September 2022

Ergonomics Are Not Enough
Comfort, harm reduction, and change.
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March 2022

How The Games Industry Hurts People
The anatomy of a breakdown, and how to rebuild afterwards.
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January 2022

NFT Fantasy 3: Why None Of The NFT Plans Even Make Logical Sense
Why none of the promises make logical sense.
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NFT Fantasy 2: Why NFTs Don't Enable Knowing What You Own In Other Games
We do that already. Inter-game communication is far less complicated than you might think.
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December 2021

NFT Fantasy: Why Items-as-NFTs Does Not Enable Transfer Of Assets Between Games
As usual, everything is more complicated than it looks.
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I Filled Out This Description As A Joke But Accidentally Hit Enter And It Made This Post But Now It's Too Funny To Delete.
Oh no.
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