A hard-earned counter to fail-fast culture: build a solid grasp of context first, so that action, when it comes, is faster.
Thoughts
Collection of essays, frameworks, and notes. Value subjective and debatable. Filter by topic, or skim the lot.
A metacognitive exploration into the nature of understanding itself — what it is, how it is built, and what ultimately limits it.
A personal philosophy: take better actions, learn from them, become able to take better actions — a closed loop seeking equilibrium.
The standard pleasure–flow–purpose model of happiness felt off. A static model works until you know yourself well enough to build a dynamic one.
A personal motto for full-stack understanding — from the sand of physics to the bands of meaning and expression.
A lens for learning: understanding is stability. You understand something when small changes don't break your reasoning and the idea transfers to new contexts.
The concepts I value and aspire to — curiosity, willpower, intellectual honesty, mastery — that anchor how I work and grow.
I’ve made games all my life — but maybe my last games job. Why the market doesn’t need more games, and why the craft still matters anyway.
Design a product like a window — built for a viewer and a context, but needing to adapt as the use changes. A forcing function, from the Playmat post-mortem.