Oh also final point, I promise! My Grandad understood something that I think is a big part of my own philosophy too: that people are made up of two things - atoms and stories. When your atoms break down, what's left is stories.

My Grandad wrote his memoirs and sent them to all his grandchildren. We'll pass them down to the next generation, and that way everyone gets to hear about his amazing life and his love for Granny.

Tell your stories. They're precious.

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

Favorite Guitar Hero dev moment:

Suddenly on the intercom: “Hey guys, Ozzy is in the back doing mocap and he can’t perform without an audience. Can anyone come back here and cheer for him?”

Tables and chairs were flipped. Devs were running screaming down the halls.

Then there we were, home made mosh pit, 6 feet in front of Ozzy while he lip synced Crazy Train in a spandex mocap suit. And we raged hard because we were helping Ozzie!🤘

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