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Half the time, it feels like sending signals out into space. But we’ve learned so much of the universe that way, haven’t we?
Gaming
Not A Gamer: missed messages
Indie game developer Angela He’s missed messages sets you up to fail, and that’s a good thing.
Mental Health
Rest
The relentless hustle of startup culture, or the crunch of game development, or whatever synonym other tech-adjacent industries like to use for the endless grind of work, all rest on the metaphor of the worker as a single-minded machine.
Mental Health
Is there anything lonelier than falling ill, alone in a foreign country?
There’s nothing more you’d like than to huddle in a cocoon of blankets and plushies until you can stand to exist for more than three hours at a time again. Instead, you force yourself out of bed and force down desultory spoonfuls of oatmeal to avoid throwing up your meds. Read more…