This is how I calculate margins: Step 1: get your total-cost-of-ownership of one years’ operation Step 2: get how much it costs to upgrade to stay relevant for the next…
Read more →I just finished watching Prometheus. Its nice that most of the equipment I saw can be found in your basic sci-fi setting, especially considering GURPS Ultra-Tech. Breaking down the formula…
Read more →Personal Projects: Summarize my Must read books Youtube video of 5-10mins of my favorite books and key lessons and summary. Starting with Combat Leaders Field guide by Sgt. maj, Brett…
Read more →I’m aware of the Millenium Development Goals and some of the major projects that seek to improve the quality of life in the Philippines. Some believe the path is through…
Read more →Continuing from my previous post I thought of various gamification of certain GM tasks. Mind Maping Game. Basically its like a mind map version of the Sims. The Game or…
Read more →These are projects I’d like to undertake if i had the time, capital and freedom. I’m putting my ideas out there, I don’t care who does this kind of project…
Read more →Game within a Game: modular and complete games and game systems. I was looking at the rules for world building in the old traveller games and in harn and gurps…
Read more →Major projects at work is keeping me too busy to make anything worth posting and getting hits. Some major work and life changes, particularly in the Family Biz. There is…
Read more →I’ve broken down the Shipbuilding Rules into a bunch of ratios that would be useful for building a Space Colony. labs survey stations medical stations life support systems power plants…
Read more →Because of how biz works, when you are in a professional setting and someone lies at your side’s expense you cannot react and you cannot let it get to you……
Read more →Cleaning House. Cronyism leads to very high salaries. Salaries that are beyond the market norm, and does not reflect the productivity. If such people lose that cronyism-job and need to…
Read more →IMTU colonists use genetically engineered plants that are designed for the particular planets to trap, concentrate, synthesize, and mine mineral and chemical resources. The turn around time for such plants really depend…
Read more →The best Mental Model for Strength is Work in my opinion. What I mean by work, the SI unit or Watts. There is a an amount of Work or Strength…
Read more →I made public my Gaming Assistant Notes, as well a whole set of notes related to it. My purpose is to gain visibility and hopefully crowd source some suggestions. If…
Read more →I get more practice in using these tools and skills thanks to gaming, that it actually makes it a natural for me to use such tools. Although I sometime wish…
Read more →I believe an Open RPG System is almost the same thing as a Science Based Mental Model of how the world works. I’m working on an Open RPG System, there…
Read more →Too many projects and to many distractions from life and work, so I might as well be organize and track them all. Here is a sample project monitoring collaboration sheet…
Read more →edX – Press Release Harvard making their own Open Course Ware like MITX
Read more →Ok, I tend to blend work and games to a fault. So much that I’ve become rather an alien kind of gamer in the game-o-sphere. I’ve thrown out rules that…
Read more →Integrity is a big part of work, there are many Game-theory reasons why Integrity is a big issue, but I’ll not cover all that here in this post. I want…
Read more →Moving forward I have to consolidate my notes and the comments, so I just made a Google Doc that is editable. There are a lot of considerations so I might…
Read more →Just a thought. I listed my ideas in the link and realized after writing it that I found an interesting way to teach people some engineering, math, physics, economics etc……
Read more →In the discussion of scanners with ken and nyranth, working a setting without stealth is not such a bad thing. I think the sooner we move stealth away from being…
Read more →Scanning Limitations of Technology I was doing some back-of-the-envelope calculations with regards to scanning. So TL10 is 10,000 times better processing than our own computers to weight in TL8. Still,…
Read more →The most a company can realistically promise is that “they will help you grow”. Growth means better skills, capabilities, and income. This does not mean within the same company, they…
Read more →There is that love hate relationship between complexity and convenience in science, business and life. Some of the best things in life are truly complicated, but people naturally and intuitively…
Read more →These are typical practices, the dominant practice. Its just good biz sense because it protects both parties. There are always exceptions, because many times biz is rushed and we work…
Read more →I hopefully make it clear that No Game System has a copyright in using Economics used as a World building tool. That said, you can use GDP and GDP/C to…
Read more →Plugging this Kickstarter, Basically its a program that keeps your eye on the ball. So if you know how distracted you can be and you really need to have your…
Read more →IMTU TL will be used for GDP per Capita. It also has the added use of determining the technology support capacity of the State. Wealth modifies this, it simply measures…
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