Peter Hagen

How I Choose What to Work On

People are the most engaged in an activity when they feel like they are highly skilled at it, and are using that skill to confront a great challenge.

All human beings have the instinct to learn, discover and experiment. Fun comes when you can provide situations where they can practice the above.

My take on it is that fun comes from interacting with a system with enough depth for interesting stuff to emerge - maybe even things that will surpris

I write games so ugly that I am showered with contempt, and yet I make money! I’ll have a full, lifelong career! If I can have so many flaws and still

To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few

All human beings have the instinct to learn, discover and experiment. Fun comes when you can provide situations where they can practice the above.