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IDEALISTIC FUTURE™
Games as Models of the World
Jeff Hawkins’s A Thousand Brains helped re-emphasize for me why games have persisted as useful...
Making Games at Grandma’s: Where Rules Came From
My grandmother had a deck of playing cards, a scattering of old toys from decades...
Monsters at Work: When the Past Refuses to Move Out
Some things are not “memories”; they are tenants. You think you moved on, then you...
What one can learn from playing the villain and choosing the wrong adventures
Before we ever faced a dragon, opened a trapped chest, or argued over who should...
World-Building as a Personal Practice
World-building is a term often associated with speculative fiction. J.R.R. Tolkien built Middle-earth. H.G. Wells...
Reality Is a Terrible Place to Test an Assumption
Practicing for a speech, recital, or sporting event can feel repetitive, difficult, and largely invisible....
FORTRAN at the Dining Room Table
When I was back home recently, my mother and I reminisced about the programming classes...
Expert in a Dying Field
There is a particular kind of anxiety that comes from becoming very good at something...
Red, Blue, and the Space Between: What BTS’s “Normal” Says About Life’s Complexity
I have always loved deep lyrics. The kind that seem simple on the first listen,...
World and Wisdom: Building Better Practice Fields for Reality
I still remember seeing the film The Matrix in 1999. At first, it felt like...
The Robot Butler Finally Came Back
When I was a kid, I was convinced the future was going to arrive on...
Worlds That Aren’t, and What They Teach Us
There is a strange comfort in being scared by something we know is not real....
The Mixtape Never Really Died
There was a time when collecting music required patience, timing, and the reflexes of a...
