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Practice Contempt for Shoji

9 CommentsJune 10, 2009

I teach a course at the Southern Methodist University’s Guildhall program on Software Development for Games. In the syllabus I have a section entitled Cryptic Advice. One of the bits of cryptic advice offered there is this: “Practice contempt for shoji.” My students usually get around to asking me what this means by the middle [...]

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Spinning Up and Spinning Down

3 CommentsMay 26, 2009

So you want to write a novel. Or learn to play guitar. Or exercise regularly. But no matter how hard you want it, you never can seem to fit it into your schedule. You tell yourself, “If I could just write two hours a day, I could finish my novel in less than a year. [...]

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