Category: Motivation
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You Are The Engine
Somewhere along the way I came across a simple demonstration. Someone asked another person to read at a normal pace for two minutes. By the time the two minutes were up, the reader had gotten through three pages. A page a minute, give or take, depending on how dense the text is. That’s it. That’s…
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Interpreting Thelonious Monk’s “25 Tips for Musicians” To Game Development
In 1960, saxophonist Steve Lacy was hired to play a series of performances with Thelonious Monk. During that time he wrote down a list of tips — things Monk said, observations he made, advice offered in the way that advice often gets offered in a working band: casually, in the moment, not necessarily intended to…
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You Can Do Anything Except That
Some of the most disciplined people I can think of are fiction writers. To assign yourself the task of producing hundreds of pages of compelling original content — consistently, on a schedule, while also being your own harshest critic — seems like it would require not just a creative muscle but a kind of self-discipline…