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Comment on Throw Away the Carrot, Burn the Stick: Rethinking Procrastination, Part Three by Rappar

Rappar — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:47:44 +0000

Steve you’re the modern Dale Carnegie ! ‘sure you could make loads of money lecturing and coaching

Comment on Five Reasons Good Games Hurstville is the best gaming store I’ve ever seen by goodgameshurstville

goodgameshurstville — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:43:41 +0000

Wow. Jaw dropped. Thank you. I’m stoked that you enjoyed the shop enough to say such kind things, feel free to visit anytime you’re in town, Steve.

Comment on Emotional Environmentalism, or The Care And Feeding of Your Creative Urge by Peter Blake

Peter Blake — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:10:35 +0000

That was great, Steve; very eloquent. I like how Flaubert explained the need to control your environment: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

Comment on Throw Away the Carrot, Burn the Stick: Rethinking Procrastination, Part One by Sally Browne

Sally Browne — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:38:53 +0000

I think I would need cake. I don’t think a carrot would work on me. ; ) I like your point about process v outcome.

Comment on In Which I Am Cranky At Netrunner for No Good Reason by Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:03:59 +0000

Maybe I simply haven't played enough, but I really liked Netrunner out of the box because those deck combinations were roughly on par with each other. Two people can play out of a core box and have a fun game. Picking up expansion packs widens the design possibilities, sure, but I think it also increases the chances of giving one faction or another serious advantage, depending on which packs are chosen. Call of Cthulhu, in contrast, is less friendly to out of the box play because the core set uses a "one of everything" distribution. I found Netrunner's core decks much more consistent and playable thanks to the distribution pattern.

Comment on Throw Away the Carrot, Burn the Stick: Rethinking Procrastination, Part Three by dconstructions

dconstructions — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:44:11 +0000

The size of the balls refers to the item’s importance to your life, not to the difficulty or size of the task, though. But your metaphor may still apply. For me, the biggest golfball is “stuff around on the internet”. Which is hard to plan and involves few hard questions.

Comment on Throw Away the Carrot, Burn the Stick: Rethinking Procrastination, Part Three by Peter Blake

Peter Blake — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:41:31 +0000

To follow your metaphor, I’ve had to learn that I can’t actually do a golfball-task without breaking it down into sand-activities. That breaking down is partly hard planning work and partly hard asking questions of yourself – both of which require lots of practice to excel at.

Comment on Throw Away the Carrot, Burn the Stick: Rethinking Procrastination, Part One by dconstructions

dconstructions — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:57:33 +0000

It’s not a new idea, but it needs to be a much more widely understood idea. More to come!

Comment on Throw Away the Carrot, Burn the Stick: Rethinking Procrastination, Part One by Vividhunter

Vividhunter — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:54:09 +0000

The feelings of guilt are paralysing. I think you’re onto something here.

Comment on Design, Motivation and the Anxiety Curve by Throw Away the Carrot, Burn the Stick: Rethinking Procrastination, Part One | D-Constructions

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:40:54 +0000

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