November 2011
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March 2011
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Running a SXSW Session as a Cooperative Game
For our South by Southwest Interactive session on cooperative games, Health Month’s Buster Benson and I decided to try something different. We turned the talk into a game.
We named it Heat, a Cooperative Game in Three Parts. The scenario was inspired by a Twilight Zone episode called The Midnight Sun that haunted me as a kid. Our story starts like this:
The earth has begun to move closer...
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Gamechanging the System
The Austin Chronicle is running features on some of the upcoming sessions at SXSW. James Renovitch was kind enough to feature my session in his well-written article, ”Gaming the System”, previewing gamification themes at this year’s conference . I am in great company in this article with Brynn Evans, Dave Gray and a nice description of Buster Benson’s web app, Health...
February 2011
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"Who's Got Your Back?" An Investor Story
There’s a maddening amount of sound and fury these days on the subject of startup financing. Just yesterday, startupland’s enfant terrible, Jason Calacanis responding to a blog post by venture capitalist Bryce Roberts, made a bravado-drenched comment that’s become typical of the discussion:
“VCs, especially small ones…are no longer needed in the food...
January 2011
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We're All Collapsitarians Now!
The following is an Ignite presentation I did in 2009, not long after the financial collapse. It’s interesting to look back on it two years later.
We’re All Collapsitarians Now