The perfect “boys” film, cool tech toys and beautiful women. But I’m fascinated by Tony Stark, what does it take to be a genius?

There’s a great blog post here from Tadhg Kelly on ethical game design (thanks to Umair Haque for pointing it out). Tadhg points to the fact that some game design preys on the compulsive behaviours that create addiction. Is your ‘harmless diversion’ more slot machine than meaningful activity? I’m not taking the draconian point of [...]

OK, so this post is partly an excuse for telling you I’ve changed all the links on my blog… But you may be asking yourself, doesn’t this sound like a lot of boring hard work??? When I could be sitting with my feet up watching TV and eating myself into a food coma… The trick [...]

From Bakari Akil II, Ph.D. at Psychology Today.com: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/communication-central/200911/how-the-navy-seals-increased-passing-rates Interesting how he calls it “simple psychology”. It’s worth reading this more than once. I suggest on a surface level you can see this as “simple psychology” but the art is is the how you make this work. Why? Because most highly trained people can’t. “It was 10 [...]