Status by Showing Up
There is an annual trade show for the tabletop game industry. By virtue of attending for eight years running and having been lucky enough to host a few presentations for my former employer, I recognize and get recognized by a lot of people in the industry. That’s despite my lackluster networking skills, and even the […]
Who Are “People Like Us”?
Ultimately, you get to decide, because “people like us” is framed around you. But not really you. Not the you that you are. Rather, it is framed around the you that you want to be. And maybe not even that. Maybe it’s the you that the you that you want to be wants to be. […]
Back on the Horse
I have been away, but now I am back. Back to business. Back in the black. Back on top. Back on my feet. Back to basics. … There sure are a lot of phrases and colloquialisms related to returning to a better state. It’s almost as if all humans fail sometimes, and need all the […]
Pay to Play
Below is one of my favorite stories. It is probably a fictional fable, but easily relatable for anyone like myself who turned a hobby into a profession. The story has a simple lesson at its core, but deserves analysis on many different fronts, which I will do in future posts. ****** A grumpy old man […]
Dismiss Resistance
I just passed the three-week mark of blogging daily. Momentum has been a powerful motivator for writing every day, as I tried to express in my first post. I’ve since added the accountability icons below, but admittedly I’m still struggling to get up to speed with them. Some days seem harder than others for some […]
Empathy in My Sleep
I just woke up after sleeping for 12 hours. I probably needed it, though I feel less refreshed than I usually do after seven or eight hours. Also, it probably would have been better if it wasn’t from noon to midnight yesterday. Without a schedule imposed by a workplace, I easily fall off of any […]
Rebranding “Socialism”
Yesterday, I wrote about how terrible the word “socialism” is for advancing change. It’s misunderstood because it’s an ill-defined economic term, it has massive baggage from generations of prejudice against it, and it’s used as both a positive self-identifier and a negative slur. Sometimes, the correct strategy when a word has such different interpretations is […]
“Socialism” is Bad
The word itself, I mean. Everything about that word is bad. To be fair, most economic words are also bad. That’s because economics is a flawed theoretical art form struggling to account for human motivation inside a relatively short history of large societies with increasingly fast changes to behavior due to new technology. But we […]
Comic Book Lessons
Despite spending a ton of time in a comic book shop from age 13-17 playing Magic the Gathering, I actually wasn’t into comic books. It took another collectible card game, which used Marvel and DC characters, to really get me hooked. VS System was a hell of a game. It was created and published by […]
Disagree to Disagree
We don’t hold the same beliefs. I guarantee it. Beliefs are personal convictions about how we see the world. No matter how many humans have or will exist in the entire history of our species, no two will ever share the exact same combination of beliefs. Here’s why: In order to forge a deeply held […]