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The Hunting Party
My first book took six days to write and 51 years to collect. →
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The Scarcity Operator
How a person running on empty turns control into a management style. The Goalposts We all know what it feels like. You reach an agreement with… →
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Star of the Week
How a well-meant ritual taught me that the system influences how people behave, and that the why has to travel with the what. The meeting Thirty… →
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The Convenience Illusion
Or how a trillion-dollar company taught me that indifference scales better than incompetence. I spent four and a half hours in an Apple Store today that… →
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Sorry By Name, Not Nature
Remembering Scott Sorry I first met Scott Sorry sometime around 2006. At the time, Scott had recently joined The Wildhearts as bassist. They were my favourite… →
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The Power of Saying Sorry
And why apology is a learning tool, not weakness. There have only been a handful of times in my career (and, frankly my life) where I… →
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Everyone Chasing the Ball
Or positioning is what wins during periods of change. At school break time, football rarely looked like football. Someone produced a ball, jumpers became goals, and… →
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Lean, The Missing Stabiliser
How teams overcorrect after a shock, and why lean brings them back. My first business started in 2003 with almost nothing. Five years of experience in… →
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Team retention and culture
The small things that keep people around I’ve written elsewhere about why I set up Kempt, what we built, and what I learned the hard way… →
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Leadership & Mistakes
Or ask questions, listen, address… A good friend in the games industry once told me that he considered himself a “51%-er”, implying that what made him… →
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The Danger of Cognitive Bias
Series: Cognitive Biases The Danger of Cognitive Bias (this post) Action Bias Sunk Cost Bias I used to think the hardest part of building games was… →
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Game & Software Development Issues
And how to avoid them A risk matrix is a useful planning tool at any stage of development. It helps you anticipate problems, agree mitigations early,… →