I’m supposed to be writing every week in Grok Systems, but my next post has been particularly harder to write in the context of my busy life. Part of this has been my obligation to write about the GDC, which I’ve only just recently started getting out of the way. But this got me in […]
SuperHappyDevHouse 17 is happening this Caturday on Cinco de Mayo.I, for one, welcome our new lolcat overlords.
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Tonight I’ve been toying with the idea of personal utility and aesthetic. The way I see it, like most systems, people can be viewed as having both function and form. The idea of usefulness and emotional experience. In a more general sense, these are very interrelated things that generally work together, but like most models, […]
Semantics! I’m not talking about the semantic web, but semantics in general. I’m sure you know, but the idea of semantics is the concern of meaning. For example, when I use language to communicate, I really want it to convey my meaning because that’s the reason I’m communicating. Hence, the importance of semantics and meaning.
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This was an excellent DevHouse. The attendance was great, the people were great, the ideas were great… it was a great experience. I just can’t get over how awesome it is to be surrounded by such smart, inspiring, fun people.
This was SuperHappyDevHouse 10000. We always like to play with the event number for DevHouse events, […]
I’m piloting a new event on April 14th at my apartment I’m calling an inspirathon video night. The idea is simple: get together to watch a number of great modern speakers on a big screen talk about a variety of intellectually stimulating topics. But now I’m going to embellish the idea with a slight rant […]
Today I saw an award-winning documentary on the Science Channel called Ants: Nature’s Secret Power. You see, I have a love for ants, not just because Will Wright loves them, but because they’re great examples of emergence and systems principles. They’re also completely decentralized social systems, making them a superorganism with collective intelligence, which is […]
Come to DevHouse 13!
Let me tell you how I saw DevHouse get started. The most official starting point was probably back at a movie night at David’s house when I brought the idea up. David Weekly, Andy Smith, and Chris Messina were all there. In discussion it turned into a competition, which eventually manifested in DHX, the 10th […]
What if you made a web service over the weekend that would allow you to quit your job and work for yourself fulltime?
It’s been done before, and like everybody’s saying, it’s only getting easier. Nothing sounds more attractive than an automated web service that just rolls in the dough, effectively being a “money printing machine.” […]