In any creative endeavour, don’t worry about quality until you have a decent amount of experience under your belt. Go out of your way to be crap for a while. You’ll be crap either way, so why not embrace it? Focus on getting your work out, on shipping it, more than getting good quality. Quality […]

Japan seems to have a strange infatuation with everyone doing everything at the same time. In general, they don’t have students move up or stay on in a year level, and the reason I got when I asked was that they value the group being together right from the early years. That theory gets a […]

Today Nathan and I had a chat about work. It will be up in the coming days on YouTube, I only just got our second episode up, but one of the interesting points that Nathan mentioned was the definition of work. Well, we think there are multiple definitions for work, but after a bit of […]

Humans have one special ability that computers will never be able to do, and that is the ability to come up with ideas. Sure computers can come up with songs and news articles, but that’s all rehashing things that have come before. No, humans have the ability to come up with new ideas. As humans, […]

I remember when I was about 8 or 9 I had ridden quite far on my bike, at least the furtherest distance I had ever ridden. And of course, I got a puncture. For some reason, I can vividly remember walking all the way back home. I remember getting angry at my dad because he […]

In Japanese, when you ask someone to do something and they don’t want to do it, nine times out of ten they say ‘that sounds difficult’ instead of giving you a straight up no. When you’re used to it, it’s fine, although it does get annoying. Especially when I point out that difficult and impossible […]

Stories are an insanely important part of what it means to be human. It’s precisely because we have the ability to form stories that create a collective understanding between multiple people that we can move multiple people at once to take action. The next point though, is what we use those stories for. The story […]