Author Archives: lion
New School Fool
Whenever I go to a new yoga studio, or get a teacher who I haven’t had before, they invariably ask: “how long have you practiced yoga?” I hate answering that question because my answer is “10 years”. “Oh wow!” they say. After … Continue reading
Four Key Traits for Designers
These are the traits that I look for when hiring designers. These are also the first things that I teach when training new designers. Know What is Essential Designers need to understand the soul of their product plus its constraints … Continue reading
Seven Steps for Better Documents
Forward This is a document about creating documents, or as we jokingly said at the office: “the Inception of documents”. The entire seven step process is covered in this blog post, but due to the limitations of the blog layout … Continue reading
The Basics of Scrum
I’ve personally been interested in various production methodologies since about 2005. The two that have been the most interesting to me are The Cerny Method and Scrum. Gameloft recently gave me an opportunity to participate in a Scrum Master certification … Continue reading
The Culture Wars Won’t End Soon
Culture wars. The red/blue one in the USA is well known but even socialist countries have them. I don’t think they’re going to go away anytime soon. I will support this thesis with two arguments: history and the Threefold Truth … Continue reading
Concentration and Awareness in Buddhist Meditation
While trying to make a point about omnicentric value paradox on facebook I did a Wikipedia search on Tientai Buddhism and came across a term I had never seen before. Tiantai emphasizes Å›amatha and vipaÅ›yanÄ meditation. In fourteen years of … Continue reading
9forthe90s
Here is my contribution to my friend’s 9forthe90s tumblr project. The goal is to “tell the story of your musical experience of the 90s in only 9 tracks” without focusing on a single year or genre. Paring down the 90’s … Continue reading