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  • If Oompa Loompas sang about kids with cell phones.

    If Oompa Loompas sang about kids with cell phones.

    The most important thing we’ve learned,So far as children are concerned,Is never, NEVER, let your tykeUse Facebook, Twitter, and the like.

  • Neglect: Your life is falling apart.

    Neglect: Your life is falling apart.

    Neglect.You neglect yourself – fail to cut your hair, trim your toenails, exercise, bathe – and maybe people won’t want to be around you. Maybe you don’t feel like you’re worth the care. Maybe you think that it’s your choice. It’s not. It’s…

  • Fake eye-tracking heat maps 2: macbook pro with touch bar

    Problem?

  • Failing in the attempt

    always sucks. It hurts. It actually hurts less to fail a different way: fail to try. It’s less public, it’s understandable, and it’s justifiable ten thousand different ways. Of course, failing to try leads to a different type of pain. Less sharp, less likely to lash out and hurt you…but it’s chronic, and self-perpetuating. Because…

  • fake eye-tracking heatmaps 1

    You’ve seen those Eye-tracking heatmaps? Here’s the start of a little art project.

  • Game design is the most other-oriented form of design

    Recently, I attended a small gaming group, and ran my game – The Cloud Dungeon. It’s a paper craft, creative game with a storyline, and I’ve played through it so many times, you’d think I’d be sick of it. And it’s true – I don’t want to play through my game. Honestly, if I put…

  • Removing willpower in habit change

    We’ve all been there. Maybe it’s the beginning of the year, maybe you’ve just hit rock bottom, and are swearing to change some habits. You resolve to make changes. You’re gonna get fit, have a better family life, get rich, and take care of yourself better. It’s easy, because you’re so passionate about change. You have…

  • About

    I’m not one of those slick, greasy successes showing other successes how to be more successful. When I read the blogs and books of people like that, it’s easy to come up with an excuse not to do amazing stuff, because my circumstances are different. They’re perfect. Their life is perfect, or pretty close. How…

  • Fear is two-faced

    Fear tells you stories. Fear of action (procrastination), fear of failure (anxiety), fear of success (self-sabotage), they all speak countless lies into your ear, but they have problems keeping their stories straight. Fear will often tell you two lies at once – one vary convincing lie, and another lie, also very convincing, but the exact opposite of what it…

  • Embrace distraction, beat anxiety

    “Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and do the work” – Chuck Close …yeah, but buckling down and focusing on something for hours is tough, isn’t it? Often when I’m working on something that I really care about, I feel a deep anxiety that scares me away from the work. My…