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He is Coming Early Access Review

The last month of my video game playing time has been a lot of small indie games on the steamdeck. He is Coming is the most recent addition to that roster. The game is a rougelike where you move around a map picking up items and fighting enemies. You’ve

9 Kings Early Access Review

9 Kings is a deck building, city building, synergy building combo that manages to find a sweet spot in a mix of genres. I played hours of the game while traveling in June and while it remains in early access there’s already a lot to like. If you’re

Common modes of communication failure

For almost everyone, a big part of your professional life will be communicating ideas to others. Your ability to communicate those ideas to others will be directly correlated with your success. I’ve noticed, over many years of trying to communicate ideas, that there are several common failure modes in

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 feels like the game I have been waiting for since Final Fantasy X. Maybe since FF12 but in either case, for a long time. It’s takes the turn based formula and makes it feel fresh. Doing so while avoiding all of the strange semi-action turn

Spinning up SaaS in an service business : Lessons Learned

Over the last twelve or so months I’ve been working to spin up a new line of revenue at Explorate. The company has, for most of its history, been focused around growing a freight forwarding services business. Rather than use off the shelf software, we developed our own. Fit

Things I've Done: Maxwell Plus

It’s taken a long time to write this. Not because it was a secret but it has taken me about that long to decide what I wanted to say. The short version is that Maxwell Plus was an AI startup in health that we ran for six years, ending

Color TV and Chat GPT

Sometimes I think technology has hit a bit of a wall. There are lots of every day things that I feel should be solved by now. For some vague definition of solved. The logical part of me, the part that has been building technology products for the last dozen years,

Infinite Avocados

I saw an article recently about the continued growth in the Avocado market. I don’t know why it showed up but something about it tempted me enough to read it. Most of the article was updates on weather conditions and a surge in production in some part of the

I Very Much Recommend Dungeon Crawler Carl

I am about twenty percent into book seven of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books and it has been a blast. In particular the Audiobook versions read by Jeff Hayes. It’s funny, full of interesting twists and turns and often quite heartwarming. All while remaining very light hearted. If you

Experiments are Bricks

I was listening to an episode of Lenny’s Podcast with the Head of Growth at Shopify. In it, they talked about how 30% - 40% of all experiments fail to show long term impact. I’m not doubting the numbers, but I think this misses the point. Experiments around