Armored vs. Daring Leadership in Game Development

At this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC 2023), I gave a micro-talk as part of a leadership seminar. My talk was about moving from Armored Leadership to Daring Leadership, a concept that comes from the great Brené Brown in her book Dare To Lead. In the talk, I looked at some common problems in game…

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Measurable New Year’s Resolutions vs Seasonal Focuses

Many years ago, I started writing new year’s resolutions. I would write them, forget about them until December 30th, and then judge myself based on whether or not I had done the things on my list of resolutions despite never having looked back at them throughout the year. Just like everybody else. This was… not…

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Reducing a $12 decision to 30 seconds

Apologies in advance that it will take you more than 30 seconds to read this blog post, but hopefully there’s something interesting in here. A couple of weeks ago, I received a new credit card for one of our employees at the office. They had barely used their card in the last year, and I…

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