Another step closer to revolt. There's only so much pressure the general public will be able to handle. History has taught us when there is a massive unbalance in "haves" and "have nots" things don't play out in ways where we just "sit down and discuss what's going on."
> My portfolio needs to be nothing more than the HTTP equivalent of a tri-fold brochure.
My concern here is that your website _is_ your portfolio - including how you build it. It's not just the content and long narrative that's going to sell you. This new approach has switched from showing what you can do to telling what you can do.
> But in the last 20 years, every journalist confuses journalism (informing people) with activism (changing people).
My concern with this sentiment is that is glosses over far more nefarious motivations here (which I think are more common than we like to admit).
I have met many many people in the corporate world that are more concerned about "what the rules are" as opposed to applying any sort of ethical mindset. I've seen again and again where people will take advantage of others, throw other people under the bus, and fight to take "what is theirs" (meaning what they want - not actually what makes sense) without any sort of self-reflection. If challenged they gaslight everyone around them, including themselves..
I'm willing to believe that this extends to reporters. I would not be surprised if a large number of "reporters" out there that happily go along with whatever they are told to do in the job (or to keep their job): go after eyeballs rather than report facts and (sometimes) on stuff that matters. Take a look at any sort of news network and you can clearly see that all these news anchors are playing parts in this screwed up version of reporting what's going on. It's bound to extend down to people writing the articles as well.
Several dev teams I've been on want retrospectives to help review and make things better. But those places are where devs have a lot of autonomy and ability to change how things operate in the team.
I've seen and been on teams that align more with your reaction but those are at jobs where where the dev teams have very little say in how they do things. Well that or it's filled with a lot of cynical people that don't actually care about what they are doing and don't have much desire for things to improve (they actively fight to keep the status quo).
It likely gets worse in larger companies in that misalignment between groups can be significant and very expensive given the sheer number of people involved.
Yes that's a good chunk of the day to day. But there's also laying out strategic vision for where products and the company goes, what sorts of people get hired, doing the culture curation/setting. It's not for everyone that's for certain. I've met many many people that would struggle with this role (and vice versa).
This is a good point. The statement I made about not killing anyone (in quotes) is from the article, which is only a subset of the overall domain we're talking about.
> In San Francisco, those problems can mean self-driving cars blocking traffic, transit and emergency responders, as well as erratic behavior resulting in close calls with cyclists, pedestrians or other vehicles.
I have mixed feelings about how to test self-driving vehicles (mostly stemming from ignorance). But at some point don't you have to get this stuff out in the wild to see how it behaves or else we are resigned to not making progress on this (or very very slow progress)? And considering that "no one was hurt" and "driverless taxis have never killed or seriously injured anyone in the millions of miles they’ve traveled" are were now there?
This seems like a good start and has the potential to be useful. But some of the documents are hard to consume because it looks like you need more context to understand nuance and how they fit together with other things.
I'm not very familiar with Notion. Will this be something that is easy to expand with Notion or is this the wrong platform for such things?
It's exciting to see experienced people in the game industry trying to break down barriers to show how things are/can be done. Everyone seems to do it differently, especially at smaller game studios. It's so easy to get caught in your bubble of how to make games and not figure out all the different tools out here that can pop you out of your comfort zone, biases, and blind spots.