James Stevens

Paul Valéry, the twentieth-century French philosopher, said, “Un fait mal observé est plus pernicieux qu’un mauvais raisonnement.” (A fact poorly observed is more treacherous than faulty reasoning

While the dumb web screams, the smart web whispers

To quote the always-brilliant Philip Kiely: “First you do X, then you make content about doing X, then you make content about that content… One day you realize you haven’t done X for six months. And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction.”

game designer Margaret Robertson coined the term “pointsification,” arguing that what we consider mainstream “gamification” is really just the process of attaching point values to behavior, without any further “game-like” qualities.