Ryu's Blog

1. Undercover economist on marriage and finding “the one”.

2. Interesting way to improve your memory and recall accuracy.

3. Good moral for people who love gadget lover.

4. Trick of the trade for different professions.

5. Here’s my favorite one for the past week: Will Wright’s Keynote on games and movies.

A few interesting bits:

… I look at the world as a simulation. Here’s a world stage. Lots of
things cascade into the next stage. And certain things cause changes

in other things……Movies have these wonderful things called actors, which are like
emotional avatars, and you kinda feel what they’re feeling, it’s very
effective. Films have a rich emotional palette because they have
actors. Games often appeal to the reptilian brain – fear, action – but
they have a different emotional palette. There are things you feel in
games – like pride, accomplishment, guilt even! – that you’ll never
feel in a movie……I studied Montessori’s philosophy and methods. She basically wanted
kids to explore the world themselves using toys and objects, learning
the meaning of things… and I want to build a game where a player is
going to come across the Copernican Principle, say, and you walk away
thinking of the meaning of life. Or what the future might take……This is a very powerful thing, an amplifier for imagination…We
use computers for entertainment, education, social spaces. How is this
going to impact the world going forward? Every now and then the world
goes through a huge paradigm shift… sometimes by social shifts,
sometimes only once or twice in a lifetime. Some are grass roots, some
are top down, and some take us by surprise….