Chris Salzman

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  • On Workantile’s 10th Birthday

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    A Message on Jan. 31st 2011 “oh, btw: I’m working at the workantile exchange today…seems to be very nice” But Why I showed up to Workantile after a year of working from home. To say I was feeling isolated is an understatement. I’d moved to be closer to my then-girlfriend now-wife who was in the…

  • The E-Myth Revisited Quick Review

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    A few days ago I finished The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber. Here’s a quick review: If you’ve ever wondered why your boss is the way they are, or why you feel like your job is confusing, or that you’re being pulled…

  • Inspiration is Fickle. Do The Work Instead.

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    Rely on inspiration for creative work at your own peril. In this case, inspiration means one or more of the following: The Idea The Spark The Vision The Muse Inspiration, if it comes, will come in fits and starts and rarely completely. Instead of waiting for it do the following foundational and structural work instead:…

  • You Can’t Win But You’re Still A Good Person v2.0

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    Over on the Scope Creep Studios dev blog I posted about an recent update to our game You Can’t Win But You’re Still a Good Person. We recently pushed an update to remove ads and in-app purchases and made it a dollar instead of free. Read a lot more about our reasoning Or just go…

  • The Temptation of Analytics

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    This post started as a tootstorm Computers excel at logging statistics. The upshot is that it makes it trivial (for certain values of “trivial”) to get numbers about how many people are accessing your projects and products and blog posts. This is, on the whole, considered a good thing; however, I’m not so sure it…

  • An Enthusastic Critical Framework

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    Kyle tweeted the following recently: all text is hyper-text all canon is head canon In response I made a bad joke and then mentioned: I think I subscribe to authorial intent way more than you do. Not like there’s one true canon, but there are some that are interpretations we can and should agree on.…

  • Helping at the Holidays

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    I wish I’d read this Thread going home for the holidays: HOW TO HELP IN THE KITCHEN AT THE HOLIDAYS WHEN YOU ARE A DUDE AND HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY SHOOED OUT OF THE KITCHEN, ONLY TO WATCH YOUR MOTHERS AND SISTERS LOOK EXHAUSTED ALL THROUGH THE HOLIDAY: Unrolled thread

  • Games for 2018

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    Donut County This is my clear game of the year. My wife and I both tore through it and then our toddler got surprisingly into it. For a few months she would ask to “play the donut county one?!” and was able to complete a few of the leves herself (“snake” and “rabbit”). Horizon Zero…

  • Marley’s Scrooge Case

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    Announcing A Christmas One Shot: Marley’s Scrooge Case! A tabletop RPG retelling of A Christmas Carol where the players help save Scrooge’s soul. It’s pay-what-you-want this year! I’d love it if your gaming group gave it a shot this holiday season. Please share it around with any of your nerd friends.

  • In Michigan

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    In Michigan, the Pynchon-esque finds you. A few years ago I did illustrations and layout for an essay that Dave Nelson wrote called In Michigan”. He recently published it on his site. The essay is phenomenal. It gets at the melancholy I feel every winter in this fair state: Read In Michigan: A Primer, A…