Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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This Too Shall Pass
I don’t want to write this blog post. I’m dripping sweat on the hottest day of the year thus far, barely sheltered from the heat in a cafe with a broken fan, where my damned iced drink still isn’t here, and I’ve hit a brick wall in my game development. It’s that last point that’s put me in a mood. I…
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Just Believe
Last week was the first time I met with the game development community in Penang. I don’t think I saw anyone older than the original Everquest. But with youth comes passion. They lack experience, but not the drive to make something great. Not all of them will succeed — game development can be grueling — but the sheer number of…
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Little Grey
The Biggest Load of Unimaginative Junk, Ever Spend enough time in a place and you begin to notice the local peculiarities. In Chiang Mai, it was the obsession with milk and bread as dessert — an unusual treat from my perspective, but the locals swore by it. I hadn’t realized until my last weeks there, but once I looked…
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Beach Scribbles
Last week’s highlight was our travel to Langkawi, an even smaller island than Penang, hidden halfway between the Malaysian mainland and Thailand. It represents my earliest dreams about this trip: work hard during the week, then sojourn in a tropical paradise. There isn’t anything unexpected here, it’s just classic beachy fun. White sand, turquoise water, and a healthy supply of mojitos. If you’ve vacationed in the Caribbean, you…
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