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"We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same."
Thoreau
Posted December 12, 2010 at 9:47 pm
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"It is in this respect that games provide a compelling analogy to culture. Both consist of more or less arbitrary goals and rules that allow people to become involved in a process and act with a minimum of doubts and distractions. The difference is mainly one of scale."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Flow
Posted December 12, 2010 at 2:08 pm
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"a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a well-known lawyer in my neighborhood. “Do you wish to buy any baskets?” he asked. “No, we do not want any,” was the reply. “What!” exclaimed the Indian as he went out the gate, “do you mean to starve us?” Having seen his industrious white neighbors so well off—that the lawyer had only to weave arguments, and, by some magic, wealth and standing followed—he had said to himself: I will go into business; I will weave baskets; it is a thing which I can do. Thinking that when he had made the baskets he would have done his part, and then it would be the white man’s to buy them. He had not discovered that it was necessary for him to make it worth the other’s while to buy them, or at least make him think that it was so, or to make something else which it would be worth his while to buy."
Thoreau
Posted December 9, 2010 at 11:31 pm
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"When my son wanted to go to undergraduate film school, I called George Lucas, who told him: Don’t go. Learning to make a movie is like learning to drive. Anybody can learn to drive. It’s where you drive that counts."
Michael Eisner - WSJ. Magazine - WSJ
Posted December 9, 2010 at 9:01 am
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"Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live—that is, keep comfortably warm—and die in New England at last."
Thoreau in Walden
Posted December 3, 2010 at 8:10 pm
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Now reading (Taken with instagram)
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"Think back to your first experience with financial inclusion. Did your first credit card make you a millionaire? Did you start a business with it? Probably not. It probably enabled you to buy something you needed, or gave you a cushion in an emergency—or maybe got you into debt you didn’t need. It does the same thing for the poor, just in smaller increments."
Indian Microfinance: Confusing Scale with Impact - Business - GOOD
Posted November 27, 2010 at 12:28 pm
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Epic Jimmy Wales thread on 4chan. via i.imgur.com
Posted November 26, 2010 at 7:15 pm
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Introduction to enterprise software aka, “Confusopoly”Dilbert.com
Posted November 25, 2010 at 3:28 pm
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Kingsley2: The game that I and my team have been working on for ~3 months is now live! Play!
http://apps.facebook.com/ninjasrising/ #fb
Posted November 20, 2010 at 7:18 am
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Epic LOTR re-imagining. P’bly 4chan.
via i.imgur.com
Posted November 15, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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"I’m particularly optimistic about the prospects for Digital Chocolate and Kabam – they’re both doing very well and continuing to build really interesting games."
Interview with Charles Hudson about Future Trends, Google Vs. Facebook and The First Social Gaming Summit in Europe | Social Games Observer
Posted November 10, 2010 at 2:24 pm
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