More About Me
This blog is super out of date; I blame it on work and also trying to live.
Here’s a 2021 list of excellent dumb things that describe or rhyme with what I am:
- Chaotic-pensive computer scientist
- Confidence comes from base principles understanding, & doing. Not surface level shortcuts.
- Engineer of soul & style
- Indie director depending on the mood
- Business-principles-aware but impatiently so
- Proponent of egoless individuality, awareness, interestedness
- 50-50 logic & feelings fueled storyteller
- My DnD character has a ton of charisma in short & specific circumstances
- Half hotblooded half coldblooded anime protagonist
- Comfortable with complexity & n-dimensional space
- Would-be CEO of something small & wisely disruptive
- Hyperawareness. - means you can get overwhelmed, but have a large & nuanced bandwidth
- Protopian futures lover; also pessimist futurist - those are the true optimists
Check my portfolio for some projects and game-y things.
This page has a few things about what I encourage, do, or appreciate.
Here are some cool words:
reason, humour, imagination, nerdiness, talent, equal poise, flexible mindset, exponential mindset.
also, I understand base principles of many types of human work dynamics, and the Dunning Krueger Effect. TL;DR It’s like this:
Here’s what I like:
- clear but high-bandwidth input,
- juicy feedback / visuals,
- unique stimulus scapes through VR design
- liberating mechanics,
- emergent multiplayer shenanigans,
- fanbase meta social engagement,
- new ideas / approaches.
- game feel. mouth feel. (taste)
A few of the vidya I like, for reference:
| Valve stuff, | Kamyia stuff, | Shadow of the Colossus, | Psychonauts, | System Shock 2, | Gish, |
| Carmack stuff, | Mirror’s edge, | Guilty Gear, | Smash, | Legacy of Kain, | Echochrome, |
| Kojima stuff, | SureAI (eg Skywind) | Katamari Damacy, | Majora’s mask, | Thief 2, | N++ & Flat Heroes, |
| Jonathan Blow, | Riot stuff, | Jet Set Radio, | Metroid, | Gang Beasts, | AVGN Adventures, |
| Warren Spector, | Overwatch, | Beyond Good & Evil, | Jazz Jackrabbit, | Lethal League, | Skullgirls. |
Also, Titanfall 2, Watchdogs 2, Frog Fractions 2..
Here is a brief list of things I approve of:
- Making Business Personal
- Astronaut requirements == Job requirements
- John Cleese on Creativity
- Jonathan Blow on deep creativity
- Gabe Newell: Reflections of a video game maker
- John Carmack and SMU LYLE School of Engineering
- SIGGRAPH
- Octane Renderer for MRT light fields (VR)
- Art and Technology at Pixar
- Feng Zhu Design Cinema
- Ray Kurzweil
- Jennifer Doudna
- Super Best Friend Zaibatsu
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