Monday, August 12, 2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Warning do not try the new Doritos flavor Rojas
For your own good, I am asking you to, actually imploring you NOT to
Try the new Doritos flavor that is coming out in August
play geopopper
play twister games from pre 1976
Go outside on August 19 between 2:17 and 4:02pm est
Touch any sassafras leafs
Listen to untrust us crystal castles on YouTube
Sign in to Facebook twitter waze on sept 2, 2014
Please do not
Try the new Doritos flavor that is coming out in August
play geopopper
play twister games from pre 1976
Go outside on August 19 between 2:17 and 4:02pm est
Touch any sassafras leafs
Listen to untrust us crystal castles on YouTube
Sign in to Facebook twitter waze on sept 2, 2014
Please do not
Friday, August 2, 2013
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Monsters University Principal
The Monster's University Principal
Use your uniques attributes to contribute the most.
Rather than focusing on what others are good at and trying to be like them, we have to listen to Mike Wazowki
"No two scarers are alike"
We have to embrace our uniqueness, whether it be creepy ability to sneak up on people, ability to see the funny side of things, ability to write blog articles that might only amuse oneself, attention to detail, whatever quirkiness we have, we got's to use them.
Like the championship ping pong players whose coach didn't have them spend hours developing a well rounded game, but focused on their unique strength and had them hone in on that, spending six hours plus making them better than anyone else.
Find what you are good at and do it.
If you love what you do, you are not working, but you are producing so much more value.
Sickkkk and tired of drudgery for what sake????
someone wise once said in life, you're going through the pain anyways, you might as well get something out of it.
I agree and I also think maybe just maybe there does not need to be such pain involved. Maybe we can figure out a new way of doing things so everyone is loving what they are doing.
Later this week:
Here's an idea of an app (best app idea ever and I am going to tell all the ideas of how to create it)
What's the deal with extroverts?
How I am turning work into a game
Is anyone, anyone at all playing Geopopper??
Sunday, July 21, 2013
A faulty business plan? Maybe yes, maybe no the arrested development principal
Sooooo the goal of turning playcadia into a gaming empire has not totally crumbled, but it is not as tangible as it once was.
Geopopper has hit the App Store and people downloaded it, quite a few people
But the problem is no one is creating arenas and playing.
Cdogg saw that one person created a few arenas.
He dug a little deeper and saw the setup arenas corrseponded quite closely with my sister's house (I still think a neighbor could have downloaded it and found it fascinating but cdogg is a little more speculative).
So instead of the goal of having millions of players play it right away, we have a new goal.
Find one person, just one person who thinks the game is fun and plays it.
Not just theoretically fun (that's me) but actually enjoys playing and frequently plays.
Questions:
Is annnnyyyyone playing, annnnnnyyyoone at all?
What is holding people who downloaded the game from playing the game (technical glitches, too much energy, confused, tediousness of creating arenas...?)
What would make it more fun?
The reason we need to find out if even one person is interested in playing is because if we find one tangible person out there who likes it there will likely be more and this could be a worthwhile venture. However, currently: cdogg is spending approx $15/per person who downloads the game (advertising) and it doesn't seem like anyone's playing so basically he is getting .001 cents in advertising revenue (making my blog earnings seem like the big league).
Now I'm no business school major, but at this point it is not looking good.
Cdogg also no business major (a solid general studies major, yep that's a possible major for all you undecided college students) and he is not going to continue to put his focus on a faulty investment, I know geopopper could be fun and amazing however I must take into account the arrested development principal.
Arrested development principal
Something that is wonderful and creative and value producing can get the kibosh if it doesn't have the right support
Because i was previously part of the upstanding wevegotstuff, i can get my hands on some stuff,
some pretty pretty interesting stuff
Picasso prints
metal detector accessories
Coins
Stamps
Baseball cards
Smoking jackets
Books
Lighters
War room maps
So I am offering some of this stuff to any takers ho are willing to offer some much needed feedback. How to get your hands on this stuff? Email
Previous goal=turning playcadia into gaming empire, shifting the way people work, play, solving worlds problems
New goal= finding one person, one single person who enjoys playing geopopper
Geopopper has hit the App Store and people downloaded it, quite a few people
But the problem is no one is creating arenas and playing.
Cdogg saw that one person created a few arenas.
He dug a little deeper and saw the setup arenas corrseponded quite closely with my sister's house (I still think a neighbor could have downloaded it and found it fascinating but cdogg is a little more speculative).
So instead of the goal of having millions of players play it right away, we have a new goal.
Find one person, just one person who thinks the game is fun and plays it.
Not just theoretically fun (that's me) but actually enjoys playing and frequently plays.
Questions:
Is annnnyyyyone playing, annnnnnyyyoone at all?
What is holding people who downloaded the game from playing the game (technical glitches, too much energy, confused, tediousness of creating arenas...?)
What would make it more fun?
The reason we need to find out if even one person is interested in playing is because if we find one tangible person out there who likes it there will likely be more and this could be a worthwhile venture. However, currently: cdogg is spending approx $15/per person who downloads the game (advertising) and it doesn't seem like anyone's playing so basically he is getting .001 cents in advertising revenue (making my blog earnings seem like the big league).
Now I'm no business school major, but at this point it is not looking good.
Cdogg also no business major (a solid general studies major, yep that's a possible major for all you undecided college students) and he is not going to continue to put his focus on a faulty investment, I know geopopper could be fun and amazing however I must take into account the arrested development principal.
Arrested development principal
Something that is wonderful and creative and value producing can get the kibosh if it doesn't have the right support
Because i was previously part of the upstanding wevegotstuff, i can get my hands on some stuff,
some pretty pretty interesting stuff
Picasso prints
metal detector accessories
Coins
Stamps
Baseball cards
Smoking jackets
Books
Lighters
War room maps
So I am offering some of this stuff to any takers ho are willing to offer some much needed feedback. How to get your hands on this stuff? Email
Previous goal=turning playcadia into gaming empire, shifting the way people work, play, solving worlds problems
New goal= finding one person, one single person who enjoys playing geopopper
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Plutarch Heavensbee? Maybe!
So I was reading The Art of War, like I tend to do on Tuesday mornings, and Sun Tzu made an excellent point:
Whoever deliberates/calculates more, wins.
Well, I have fallen into my old habits of chasing squirrels and bright lights, but instead of that being a bad thing, I am going to look at it as a little rest before I gets my calculating on.
But before I do, I will give a slight explanation for why Game on!!!!! became game? meh...
The bright shiny lights/squirrels (ie distractions/reason behind game meh) in my life:
1. Planning the amazing race cottage edition (it started out so promising, but as seen by the videos, the balloons popped)
2. Planning the assassins 2 cottage edition. Ahhh it was even better than Assasins one! Again for those of you who do not know Assasins is the game where all players get a target, location, and action. To eliminate their target, players must get their target to the location and get them to do an action. My brother had the easiest hit (his son, eating a smore, by the fire). I was quickly taken out by helping with the dishes on the backporch:(I don't know how I was going to get my brother in law to wear a fanny pack, so maybe it was for the best.
3. Losing my phone on the beaches of Saugatauk (I was upset until I found out that if you break a wine glass, you will lose something important to you, so much better a phone than anything else!)
4. Volleyball
5. End of Earth, Pacific Rim uuuughh only 4 hours, but they drained me
6. A slight depression due to my "brains and my dad's inventory that we did not come up with:"
(direct quote from Steve Costakes, my one day guest blogger, see what a treat you are in for?)
Whoever deliberates/calculates more, wins.
Well, I have fallen into my old habits of chasing squirrels and bright lights, but instead of that being a bad thing, I am going to look at it as a little rest before I gets my calculating on.
But before I do, I will give a slight explanation for why Game on!!!!! became game? meh...
The bright shiny lights/squirrels (ie distractions/reason behind game meh) in my life:
1. Planning the amazing race cottage edition (it started out so promising, but as seen by the videos, the balloons popped)
2. Planning the assassins 2 cottage edition. Ahhh it was even better than Assasins one! Again for those of you who do not know Assasins is the game where all players get a target, location, and action. To eliminate their target, players must get their target to the location and get them to do an action. My brother had the easiest hit (his son, eating a smore, by the fire). I was quickly taken out by helping with the dishes on the backporch:(I don't know how I was going to get my brother in law to wear a fanny pack, so maybe it was for the best.
3. Losing my phone on the beaches of Saugatauk (I was upset until I found out that if you break a wine glass, you will lose something important to you, so much better a phone than anything else!)
4. Volleyball
5. End of Earth, Pacific Rim uuuughh only 4 hours, but they drained me
6. A slight depression due to my "brains and my dad's inventory that we did not come up with:"
(direct quote from Steve Costakes, my one day guest blogger, see what a treat you are in for?)
Thursday, June 13, 2013
So maybe we don't have to dissect gossamer, but we should investigate it!
One does not dissect Gossamer?
In the ziggy seinfeld episode, elaine questions a comic. she asks the editor of the New Yorker why the comic is funny and the editor tells her "it's like gossamer and one does not dissect gossamer." It turns out the editor just liked the cartoon kitty and the comic itself was not funny.
I felt like I have been the editor.
I avoided looking deeper into things using the "one doesn't dissect gossamer excuse"
IE, by breaking down things into parts, you will miss the parts as a whole.
Or looking at it another way you can take all organs that are healthy and working and put them together and there will be no life.
Or there are ideas, crucial pieces that can't be dissected, put into words and they are the lifeforce or more integral to the process or concept than the identifiable parts.
IE what kids should be learning in math class has led to an insane amount of standards and kids who really don't understand math principals all that much. (Years ago, I heard that the hardest question a michigan test for high schoolers was a simple question about the distance a person traveled if they. All they had to do was use the old pythagorean theory, which they knew was a2 + b2 = c2 because they answered that question correctly, but they couldn't apply it to this situation)
However, I am not as skeptical of dissecting these ideas.
I think dissecting with a superficial scratching is the problem
IE asking lame, boring questions that you don't really care about finding the answers
IE coming up with plans that aren't potentially amazing
But when you dissect and plan in a deliberate, challenging, focused way it can be awesome (don't even get me started about the awesomeness that is the Math Lab at U of M, talk about a way to engage kids in math, challenge their brains and get them to talk about mathematical processes in a way I still cant)
I also think there are too many things where we can do sooooooooo much better.
Schools
Work
Relationships with other individuals, countries...
We have all this human brain power, we have got to come up with a way to mine it better, because right now it is haphazard and people are being wasted.
There are some people who, but so many people do not
Deliberate egineered workplaces and schools that but it is not an engineered, deliberate process.
New way of thinking by being at a company where things are not left to chance. They have the phrase engineered to amaze.
Got me thinking how yeah we can leave things to chance but how dangerous is that?
Deliberate focus and make it interesting.
Engagement, asking interesting questions and collecting interesting data and....
then we are but for designing
And when you shift your attitude to avoiding work, can start seeing how work is what we should be doing work is fun and interesting
ARRRGGG TIMES LIKE THIS WHEN I GET VERY FRUSTRATED WITH WORDS NOT BEING ENOUGH, wish I could take pictuers and put to words, and make cohesive all the ideas that are swirling around in my head.
What/who the heck is Gossamer?
I assumed it was hotsy totsy poet.
It turns out it is a beer, a song by the Smashing Pumpkins as well as very fine spider silk (likely what the editor was referrring to).
In the ziggy seinfeld episode, elaine questions a comic. she asks the editor of the New Yorker why the comic is funny and the editor tells her "it's like gossamer and one does not dissect gossamer." It turns out the editor just liked the cartoon kitty and the comic itself was not funny.
I felt like I have been the editor.
I avoided looking deeper into things using the "one doesn't dissect gossamer excuse"
IE, by breaking down things into parts, you will miss the parts as a whole.
Or looking at it another way you can take all organs that are healthy and working and put them together and there will be no life.
Or there are ideas, crucial pieces that can't be dissected, put into words and they are the lifeforce or more integral to the process or concept than the identifiable parts.
IE what kids should be learning in math class has led to an insane amount of standards and kids who really don't understand math principals all that much. (Years ago, I heard that the hardest question a michigan test for high schoolers was a simple question about the distance a person traveled if they. All they had to do was use the old pythagorean theory, which they knew was a2 + b2 = c2 because they answered that question correctly, but they couldn't apply it to this situation)
However, I am not as skeptical of dissecting these ideas.
I think dissecting with a superficial scratching is the problem
IE asking lame, boring questions that you don't really care about finding the answers
IE coming up with plans that aren't potentially amazing
But when you dissect and plan in a deliberate, challenging, focused way it can be awesome (don't even get me started about the awesomeness that is the Math Lab at U of M, talk about a way to engage kids in math, challenge their brains and get them to talk about mathematical processes in a way I still cant)
I also think there are too many things where we can do sooooooooo much better.
Schools
Work
Relationships with other individuals, countries...
We have all this human brain power, we have got to come up with a way to mine it better, because right now it is haphazard and people are being wasted.
There are some people who, but so many people do not
Deliberate egineered workplaces and schools that but it is not an engineered, deliberate process.
New way of thinking by being at a company where things are not left to chance. They have the phrase engineered to amaze.
Got me thinking how yeah we can leave things to chance but how dangerous is that?
Deliberate focus and make it interesting.
Engagement, asking interesting questions and collecting interesting data and....
then we are but for designing
And when you shift your attitude to avoiding work, can start seeing how work is what we should be doing work is fun and interesting
ARRRGGG TIMES LIKE THIS WHEN I GET VERY FRUSTRATED WITH WORDS NOT BEING ENOUGH, wish I could take pictuers and put to words, and make cohesive all the ideas that are swirling around in my head.
What/who the heck is Gossamer?
I assumed it was hotsy totsy poet.
460 × 276 - guardian.co.uk
It turns out it is a beer, a song by the Smashing Pumpkins as well as very fine spider silk (likely what the editor was referrring to).
600 × 398 - clydesdaleproject.blogspot.com
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