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The task I have to make my grandfather proud of what I do seems fairly simple, really. It's not that dissimilar to the role he took up each time he picked up his carpentry tools in his workshop.
Work hard on craft.
Measure twice, cut once.
Feel the grain; work with it, not against it.
Create something unexpected, but faithful to the source from which it sprang.
Strikes me as good advice for any act of creation. My reply is, I can do that.
Theory of Fun for Game Design
Raph Koster
But more important, humor is gracious and shows respect. It shows the audience you think enough of them to want to entertain them.
On Speaking Well
Peggy Noonan
A narrative is a form of closure: it has a beginning and an end and is characterized by a closed order. Information, by contrast, is additive, not narrative.
The Disappearance of Rituals
Byung-Chul Han and Daniel Steuer
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