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“Will It Be Good” Is The Wrong Question To Ask About “No Man’s Sky”

I’m looking forward to No Man’s Sky, a video game of space exploration. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a game a few years in development that promises exploration of a giantic, procedurally-generated galaxy. It sounds like it’s going to hit a lot of my sweet spots with exploration, mystery, procedural generation, and visuals off of a prog rock album cover. If you’re not up to speed on it, this redditarchive is helpful.

Asthe game promises a lot, comes from a small team, and has had it’s sha...

Steve’s Update 11/29/2015

Hey all, here’s the latest of what’s up with me!

Sailor Moon Book – Chapter 2 is written – and it was still challenging. My co-author and I are each writing chapters separately and then exchanging them to edit, so I look forward to her feedback and reading her chapter. In my case #2 covered the impact of having a show that was unabashedly about women and unabashedly femminine, which revealed some additional subtleties I hadn’t considered – such as the fact the characters were also “normal” in...

Linkus Maximums

“If” is a pretty powerful tool for financial planning. A good bit of advice here “ifs” let you find what you need to do to reach your goals.

Generational Spaceships arean awful unlikely proposal according to Kim Stanley Robinson, though there may be some interesting solutions to the challenges discussed. Very thought-provoking reading, though for me I say head for the stars no matter what.

Women face barriers to leadership – and we make it too easy to put incompetent men in positions of power...

Careers For Geeks: Advantages And Disadvantages

I’m pretty much an unrepentantgeek, which is sort of obvious by . . . well, everything. As you may guess I consider it an advantage in my life and, obviously, my career. It’s the career I’d like to talk about right now.

As I speak andwrite on geek careers, it’s also fairly obvious I consider being a geek to be an advantage in a career. The enthusiasm, the passion, the engagement, the productivity are excellent tools for growth, improvement, and success. There seems to be little downside, care...

Relocating For Work: Learn To “Interview” Places To Live

At some point in your career you’re probably going to have to relocate. If you’re lucky, it won’t be far, maybe the next town over. I’m not sure how lucky you’re going to be – we geeks have careers that tend to the urban areas, the cities, the centers. Chances are a lot of us don’t live where we should or will, and will have to get packing.

Now if you have to relocate, short or long, at some point you’re going to have to decidewhere to go. I like to think of this as “Interviewing” a city or t...

Steve’s Update 11/16/2015

I hope everyone is well after the terrible news last week in Paris, Beruit, and more. I hope you and yours are well.

I’ve wanted to say something about these terrible attacks, but I’ve found they’ve been said best by my eloquent friend Serdar. We cannot become what we hate.

With that, a few quick updates. I’m going to keep it tight due to the tragedy.

Way With Worlds should be back from the pre-readers in two weeks. I’ll be doing a deep-dive edit on it for concept and clarity – and dividing...

Peace For France, For You, For The World

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Link Roundup 11/13/2015

Returning to my link roundups of links relevant to career, life, and more.

Russian Metrojet flight 9268 does look like a victim of a bomb. What makes me wonder is why no one took credit. I am to say the least not trusting Russia or Putin, so wonder what the global impact of this is and who was trying to do what with this bombing – and that of course is if this IS a bomb and not just a misreading.

The University of Santa Barbara digitized 10,000 old wax cylinders. A wonderful piece of historic...

Activities For The Civic Geek: Technology Refurb And Access

Technology is critical to people’s lives these days. Not everyone has access to computers and computer knowledge. Technical geeks can make sure people have access to technology – and teach people along the way.

If you don’t have internet and computer access, you’re at a disadvantage in the modern world. A lot of people have trouble getting computers.

Ironically, a lot of people are also throwing equipment away.

These are two causes that can come together – refurbishing computers and getting t...

Activities For The Civic Geek: Teach Writing Skills

Good writing is the key to many things in one’s life and career – and for many it can become their life and their career. We geeks are literary types, so why not pass on the skills to others?

If you’re a geek, you’re probably a reader. However, I’d give it a pretty good chance that you do at least some writing as a geek, and a very good chance that someone in your sphere of geeky friends is a writer of some kind, ifsemi-professionally. In turn almost all of us depend on some writing skills in...