technology trends
One of my most eye-opening early experiences was a tour of a local manufacturing plant during high school. One of our tour guides was a MIT trained engineer who accompanied us, explaining how everything worked. At the end of the tour, he gave each of us a picture of a
communication
I've occasionally been told that I have a confrontational style of communication
. But that's not necessarily a bad thing – as Kathy Sierra points out, the
smackdown learning model
[http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/08/the_smackdown_l.html]
can be surprisingly effective:
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learning
I found this Will Wright quote, from a roundtable at last week's E3, rather interesting:
Will Wright said he's learned the most from games that seemed appealing on paper, but were failures in the marketplace. "I actually ask people when hiring how many failures they&