“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.”–Maurice Maeterlinck
Author Archives: Ryan Markel
"A rock star is not someone…"
“A rock star is not someone who takes the temperature, who gauges the marketplace before he creates his “art”. A rock star is someone who needs to create and is willing to tolerate the haters along with the fans. He’s someone who incites controversy just by existing. That’s what we lost in the dash for cash. Unique voices.
I’m not saying we haven’t ended up with some pleasant music, but it just hasn’t hit you in the gut, it’s the aural equivalent of Splenda, it might do the trick, but it’s not the real thing. The real thing grabs your attention, drives down deep into your heart and lodges itself there.
A rock star doesn’t follow conventions, doesn’t go disco or add drum machines just because everybody else does. A rock star exists in his own unique space, and if you met him you probably wouldn’t like him. Because he tends to be self-focused to the point of being narcissistic. Because he cares. He needs to get his message out.”–Bob Lefsetz
"The man who insists on seeing…"
“The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.”–Henri-Frédéric Amiel
links for 2008-10-17
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Discounting the fact that charging for additional content that's theoretically already in the hands of consumers is bad, the fact that they denied that this was going to happen in order to stage the announcement makes Namco Bandai much less trustworthy. It sure would be nice if more companies would take cues from Criterion Games and Burnout.
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I've been using the 2.7 "hemmorhage" version for a while now, and the interface for WordPress has seen several reinventions just over the last few weeks while the team was nailing down the final look and feel of it. I have to say that after seeing its evolution, and now seeing more of the final product, what they have done to change the interface is very nice. Fewer clicks, more information at once, and a desire to re-think the entire game have lead to solid design decisions.
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My excitement and anticipation for this—especially if it were to have online play—cannot be measured in numbers anything short of astronomical. It will look like trash on an HDTV, but I don't care.
"We live in a world…"
“We live in a world where we have the leverage to make things happen, the desire to do work we believe in, and a marketplace that is begging us to be remarkable. And yet, in the middle of these changes, we still get stuck.
Stuck following archaic rules.
Stuck in industries that not only avoid change but actively fight it.
Stuck in fear of what our boss will say, stuck because we’re afraid we’ll get into trouble.
Most of all, we’re stuck acting like managers or employees, instead of like the leaders we could become. We’re embracing a factory instead of a tribe.”—Seth Godin: Tribes, We Need You to Lead Us
Ryan Markel 