Very inspiring article. I really wish we'll indeed see more and more weird and creative websites. People apparently feels uneasy in their current social media jails, the time is ripe to leap in the unknown again.
Shows why it's important to go for a blameless culture, also outside of postmortem. This is definitely not easy but worth it.
This is unclear on the technicalities (is it even possible to just claim it like this? is CC0 required? etc.). Still this is a bold move, hats off to this renowned author.
Interesting conservation work. Video games being part of our culture, especially indie ones, it's important for such work to happen and be funded.
If you only stream it, it won't be available forever. Keep this in mind when it's something you find culturally relevant... it might require some conservation work.
Very good points about cultural differences. Indeed some people directly ask and express their needs, others are more waiting and take into account everyone else's needs when asked. Both have pros and cons, it's important to know where you stand.
I actually always wondered about this, now I know. :-)
Good advice to fight against FOMO as far as reading material is concerned... just pluck things as they pass by. There's so much content there's likely redundancy anyway, hopefully. Yeah... I'm not cured.
This is indeed a phenomenon which I find odd. Everywhere you look, culture seems like it became homogeneous... I don't like this much, but indeed it means it's easy to be distinctive if you want to.
Interesting way to frame the potential problems around organizational culture. This indeed influence behaviors quite a bit so should be in check. It also shows it's a complicated problem you don't want to overdo it, freeze the culture in place, and see it used mainly for blaming... it'd effectively turn into a cult.
Interesting japanese term. "Complete what was originally intended". A few more proposed at this end of this short post.
Excellent post about getting too invested in a single tool. We can loose flexibility in the process. Also in the case of React, I didn't realize until now that half of the web developers have never known a time when React didn't exist!
Fascinating old school way to manage cables. And indeed the result looks pretty as well.
This is definitely a worthy advice with lots of interesting side effects. For me the main motive beyond cheer curiosity is developing more empathy towards others with different roles.
A bit too much written in superlatives for my taste. Still, this is an interesting set of qualities indeed. Definitely things to aim for.
Interesting and surprising limitation. This makes a lot of sense when you think about the set of images used for training though. Also says something about our own art history.
In praise of the little ideas and the small achievements. They are often overlooked but definitely needed.
I very much agree with this. It is a real concern with our industry, we seem indeed to keep reinventing the wheel a lot. How do we stop forgetting? How do we move forward?
Very good essay on why we shouldn't look down on the Luddite. They had plenty of their questioning right and it's actually pervasive now. We use the term as libel only because back then they lost...
Yes, streaming isn't forever... it's getting clear lately. That's why I still have CDs of the music I really like.