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15 Oct 2026
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Mikael Colville-Andersen — holds since 2026-10-15 — tap for who they are
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Dan Houser — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
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Gary Klein — holds since 2022-08-09 — tap for who they are
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Gary Klein — holds since 2022-08-09 — tap for who they are
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Adam Grant — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
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Joking about a tragedy is not trivialising it; there is no such thing as "too soon".
Holds Read this korrent →
A comedy world cannot run on jokes alone: forty hours of humour needs story, heart and drama underneath it or it stops working.
Holds
In a side project, where there is no pressure, a funny idea is worth just doing.
Holds
A pre-mortem has to treat the failure as certain and ask why it happened; asking what could go wrong is too tentative to work.
Holds
People quickly forget that suffering on the scale of the First World War is possible, and it becomes acceptable easily.
Holds
Fearing death is a pretence of wisdom; no one knows whether death may be the greatest good
Last stated c. 399 BCE
Holds
A belief system combining cosmic stakes, privileged knowledge, personal vocation and an imperative to act can license extraordinary behavior when it conflicts with ordinary constraints.
Holds
A cancellation-reason drop-down measures list order rather than reasons: randomise the options and every one of them gets picked equally.
Holds
A decision cannot be judged by its outcome, because good decisions fail through no fault of the decider and bad ones succeed by luck.
Holds
A game is a machine built around uncertainty.
Holds
A game is an equation between two personalities, the world's and the protagonist's, and the friction between them is where the experience comes from.
Holds
A game is at its best on the day it is pitched, and every day of development moves the real thing further from the imagined one.
Holds
Being professionally offended by every little thing is no longer a dominant disposition
Holds
Blaming and shaming people only makes them defensive, dig in their heels, or tune out, rather than change their minds.
Holds
Decades of warnings about an AI apocalypse do not justify much concern today.
Holds