Individuals

He generally doesn’t look at business plans at all, and just invests in the individual.

As a low level manager in a huge organization, I wonder if the process we use for new talent is reversed. It's not about finding the right person for the position, it's about finding the position for the right person.

HA! See what I did there?

The Man in the Arena - April 23, 1910

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

epic citadel is epic

The iOS unreal engine tech demo, epic citadel, is pretty dang impressive. The image was actually rendered in realtime by my iPhone. Search out epic citadel in the app store to try it out for yourself. I had already retired my ds and psp in light of the iPhone. This is just icing on the cake. Can't wait to play a full-fledged game that uses this.

shout out: Limbo

I know this is old news, but I have to give a shout out to Limbo. This game for xbox 360 has such killer mood and great simple story telling. No dialogue. No instructions. You just slowly figure the game out in a wondrous act of discovery as things start to make sense. The game has a truly disturbing aesthetic, the depths of which are merely hinted at below.

things keep getting smaller and smaller

http://wrttn.me/ perplexes and amazes me. Want a webpage? Just type and create it. No bulky blog to get in your way. It kind of hurts my head thinking of what this might be good for, but it is taking stripped down simplicity to the next level.
Type in the box. Click create. You are given a published page with a url. share the url with those you want to read your page. If you want to edit your page, you are given a special admin url. Remember this url, it is the only way to edit your page later. Anyone you share this admin url with can edit the page too.
What do you think? Super-simple. Anonymous. There is a lesson here somewhere.

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