Improvisation hypothesis: Ideation Techniques
from the Gaming Skills Open Doc* So I just finished Unframed by Engine Publishing. Among my other studies (found in the Gaming Skills doc) is that one unifying hypothesis is…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Hypothesis of Engaging Details
Hypothesis: That introducing details that serve the narrative in a way that helps us connect with complexity found in society, history, ecology, economy and technology helps us connect to such…
Read more →TRPG Books as Process Documents
*That TRPGs moving to a shorter feedbackloop with the community through using best practices in Operations Sciences would create more powerful tools and newer better value services and material in…
Read more →Ubuntu Persistent USB Drives
All you need to know about Persistend USB Drives can be found here in the mkusb. What I’m posting about is some stuff I didnt see and had to test…
Read more →Positive feedbackloops
Personal Improvement In Taichii Onno points out there is a Time and Place for everything. While in process engineering we STOP the bad thing immediately, we sometimes have to ride…
Read more →Game Mastering Research Update; leave it to Gamers to Game Self Improvement.
So I’m preoccupied in updating my Game Mastering Skills and Heuristics Document. I found this so much easier to update than blog posts because blog posts have an expectation to…
Read more →Leadership Styles
I am annoyed when the idea of leadership or management is Ordering People around. Life and Work is just so much more complicated than that I have a bad reaction…
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2017-03-04
Uncategorized
A day without my Notebook
昨天我忘了小笔记本。我难天我常常忘做什么，没有笔。 I’ve reached a level of dependence to my A6 notebooks. Forgetting one when I’m in a hurry points out that: I have to many things going on and with…
Read more →The Quality of Memory, a Self or Organizational Examination Tool
A lot of problems in both myself, my company, and in many other organizations and institutions fall under this quality metric: The Quality of their Memory. to organizations their memory…
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2017-02-21
WORK
Using “Yes And…” in work.
Basically if you follow GTD and require Actionable Concerns and everyone Else Doesn’t Operate in Actionable Items and still live and communicate in a world of Ambiguous Concerns use the…
Read more →中文学习笔记
今天我练习了汉字加语章一直五。我练习了一共三天。我完实用汉语课本章十。明天我应该上再章六至七。I need to migrate my desktop to chinese but I need to fix the text to be MUCH bigger. Like 14-16 font size big.
Read more →中文学习笔记
今天我应该写用汉语字。我实现了程度的记忆坏了。这些天我实现我有很少时间。 我应该选择周到方式使用我时间。每时机我能用什么我知道就中文能帮助我练习。 对不起，我中文不好。我用了谷歌翻译写了这。谷歌用了验证如果这是明白。 我希望我能写我中文学习笔记这方式。我要做多错误，然后我能学成为更好。 Google Translate: Today I should write in Chinese. I realized the degree of memory is broken. These days I realized I had very little time. I…
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2017-02-16
Uncategorized
I forget 2-5 words a day
每天我 忘记 两至五个话。I forget 2-5 words everyday. This is based on last Christmas when we had a new baby and had a lot of things to do and I was…
Read more →Get the Linguist Extension for Libreoffice; Chinese Update
So I updated my Public Domain Books Gdoc to add Chinese Texts of course I’m in no vocabulary to be able to read such texts YET. This is because I was…
Read more →Updated GMing Techniques; Games Literacy
So I’ve updated my GMing Techniques Document and differentiated it from my TRPG playing skill document. Basically the GMTD is the skill (or the Tricks) unraveled and explained. While the TRPG…
Read more →Chinese Update, Bloggerdroid App f*cking up
NPCR 1-5 reviewed today. I need to review 6-8 by the end of the week. Probably 6-7 and then 8. I hope to be able to get to 9 and…
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A lot of interruptions and lost tests. Npcr 1-5 done and need to review 7-8 tomorrow. I try to pass 80% before moving to the next chapter. Hope to review…
Read more →Skills as Barriers to Games
Skill or Mental Models as Brain apps The thing about Load Bearing Gear, Logistics, and any Mental Model is that its kinda a skill when it comes to TRPGs. By skill…
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39/49 (79%) it should be just 30 mins. But I had to do dad stuff so I was interrupted. Anyway I need to concentrate more and do my studies in…
Read more →Definition of Terms. More useful ones.
This is speculation on what kind of gaming material I’d like to make If I had the time. I’ve improved some of my definitions – particularly what kind of gaming…
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NPCR 1-5 81/93 (87%). It took one hour. I’ll try to do 6-8 on Sunday. That would take probably 2 hours. Then for the week review 1-5 and 6-8 again.…
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2017-01-26
WORK
Document then Document Process
After Documentation or Document as you go, the next step is Process Documentation. Everything – from Memo, Directives, Non-Conformity, etc… can be placed in the Process Bible of the Department.…
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Missed monday and Tuesday practice. This is npcr 3,4, and 5. Very rusty. 54% (37/71 correct).
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2017-01-23
reflections
Doubts
Khaneman and Tversky amplified by fear of error, while my process studies via Michael Hammer gave the solution that it should be in a Visible and External Form so I…
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NPCR 6 & 7 9-20 65/68 in 40 mins 9-22 64/68 in 30 mins OK with try move on to 8 and then 7-8.
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2017-01-18
Uncategorized
Pressure Cooker Beef and Pork
Pressure Cooked some beef ribs. A generous rub of rock salt, ground pepper, and brown sugar. Rubbed it a day ago, froze it, left it to thaw in the chiller.…
Read more →The action scale of time
It was in the undoing project by Michael Lewis I adopted the test: knowledge must be predictive. That knowing something should help us make better decisions. I found this a…
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2017-01-14
studies
De Agricultura and Reengineering
Listening to reengineering by Michael hammer and de agricultura of Cato and varro has interesting contrast. One talks about post cold war biz and more empowered workers, and the other…
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Did terribly. I need to do it everyday again. 22/49. I had a second go. because there was an opportunity and every exercise helps.
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