Capability

Weekly Challenge: The Victory – and the After

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You're looking to create your career, achieve your goals, build your bank account, etc.  You have all these plans and hopes – that's partially why you're here.

A lot of the challenges I present are to help people reach those goals, but let's try something a little different in another two-part challenge.

First I want you to pick one of your goals – or THE goal if you have but one major one.  Ask yourself:

  1. How you will know you achieved it.  Seriously, when can you declare victory?
  2. How will you preserve this achievement and build on it?

A lot of people ask #1, but victory is fleeting, and maintenance takes effort . . .

Give it some thought.

– Steven Savage

Frustration Friday: Cult Misses

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You'll notice that though I talk economics in this blog, I am careful around the subject of politics.  In some cases, where politics intersects economics (which really is in most cases), I also am cautious about what I discuss.

So for a moment let me throw some caution to the wind and watch it blow away.

I'd like to discuss my caution.

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Metal Card! I Choose You!

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I was at GDC when I ran into a gentleman discussing a hard truth about programming – that a game developer (and I'd say any developer) should get some experience in computer languages that get their "hands dirty" as opposed to doing all the work for them.  .NET, Java, Flash, etc. are all good, but a little experience with C, C++, or gods help you assembly will quickly teach you the reality of technology.

(For those of you not initiated to the mysteries of programming, simply there are some languages that do a lot of work for the programmer such as managing memory, etc.  Other languages give you finer control over what you do, but also expose you to the guts of the operating system and things like managing memory, accessing resources, and more.)

The gentleman I talked to then gave me his business card.

It was made of metal with his name, email address, and website printed on it.

Yes.  His business card was made of metal.

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