by Julie Dirksen
A number of years ago I read Chaos by James Gleick, and afterwards couldn’t help but see fractals everywhere. Now, I’ve been interested in the application of games in learning environments for years — specifically the fundamentals of game design (points, leveling, challenge, achievements, collecting, etc.), and lately I’ve been seeing game thinking everywhere I look, … Read more
I’ve been reading The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell (which is wonderful), and there was a passage about imagination that I thought was really remarkable: Imagination puts the player into the game by putting the game into the player. You might think, when I talk about the power of … Read more
So, the other day I got asked if it was okay to make a Spanish version of the the first ID Webcomic. If you are curious, here it is: How cool is that!
Bob Sutton (author of the excellent Hard Facts on evidence-based management, and other books) has had a few great posts recently on intuition, self-knowledge and cognitive bias (among other things): In Flawed Self-Evaluations he talks about people’s tendencies to overestimate their own knowledge or skill, and that the less they know about an area, the more … Read more