For the last couple of years I have wanted to form a professional group of experience makers. I've finally started to reach out to some colleagues to get this started. Like most projects, I prefer to work up a draft mission statement. Here's the one for the IRL Experience Makers Group: To help creat...
Stats December was our best month yet. Revenue was up 28% over the previous month. Visitors were up 32% over the previous month. Until December our previous weekly high for visitors was 165, The last week of the year we had 217 visitors. That's over 30% higher. It would have been more if not for us...
I'm a "done is better than perfect" creator. It's not that I'm not unaware of the many imperfections that go out the door. Part of me really, really wants to keep them under wraps until they are better. But I prefer to be shipping. The fear of shipping "done is better than perfect" is that people wi...
A Composer's Guide to Game Music (Winifred Phillips) This is one of those fantastic books where the author really knows their stuff and is also a great writer. It's no easy feat to write about music (as they say, it's like dancing about architecture), but I was able to understand most of what was ex...
Most narratives of those leaders who surround themselves with yes-people / yes-men go something like this: The leader became successful and that success led to an overinflated opinion of their ability and that resulted in no tolerance for those who disagree with their ego. While that might be correc...
One of my strongest memories of the beginning days of the internet was the experience of shopping. Or, maybe more accurately, trying to go shopping. The main page was a cartoony image of a mall. You had to click on the door to go in the mall. Then the next page would load and you would see a hallway...
I've read a couple articles lately that mock the term "immersive experience". The essence of the story is that the writer went to some "immersive experiences" that they didn't like. Then concluded that "all of life" is an immersive experience so this whole immersive experience thing is kind of a sca...
The two weeks before Christmas are the busiest for my calendar company and me. So this might be a short update. Speaking of calendar company, I need to get rid of it. It's definitely taken me away from work that is far more important to me. I will either sell it, let it die, or put it on hiatus afte...
Last week I finished the long-awaited document that explains what The Eureka Room is, why it exists, how it is growing, and (more implicitly) why someone should invest in, loan, or extend a credit line to The Eureka Room. I knew this document would be going to both people who had visited and people...
A lot of what I write starts in documents as thoughts and never gets any further. But looking through those docs this morning I see a bunch of curious, half-baked, and/or terrible ideas I thought I'd gather up and share with you. "Museum of temperatures. You have to guess what temperature each room...