one of my favorite obsessions: futureme.org

I love reading futureme.org. This site is all about sending yourself an email that you might receive a year from now or 10 years from now. I love getting this rare glimpse of other peoples’ internal narrators. I’ve learned so much about other peoples’ relationships with themselves and with time. And, I’ve gained a lot more respect for the importance AND triviality of time by reading all the letters people are ...Read More

Tags: favorite, futureme, introspective, other sites

why men don’t write advice columns

(Hat Tip: @niniane)

(sidenote: I have a top sekret posterous blog that i love, because it’s so wonderfully lightweight. there are no expectations for how I use it. i’ll try to do that here. i think using the wordpress email submission interface will help a lot. also, i’m currently experimenting with different looks for this blog. it will be changing a little bit, frequently. let me know what you think! ...Read More

Tags: funny, random

On writing…

‘I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written, life can only be lived–I have lived.’ – Oscar Wilde

It’s a lot easier to write as a bystander. When you’re in the midst of it, weathering the infinite daily (hourly, minute by minute!) battles, you don’t have as much luxury to write. We’re building, we’re fighting for survival, we’re in the thick of it.  All that time I could spend writing, I want ...Read More

CRV and GDC partner to revolutionize gaming industry

We at CRV are producing a new program at GDC called Startup Launchpad.  Essentially, it’s a way for game developers - indie to amateur to professionals within studios - to learn how to become entrepreneurs and to become unshackled from the confines of the traditional game industry structure.

 As I’m sure many of you know, many game developers/designers toil long and hard for game studios, only to receive very little if any equity for their efforts.  It’s an inequitable system.  I was an indie game developer for many years (MUDs, Mods) but I never ...Read More