AI lets a company keep the junior's output and lose the junior's practice. take away the first watch station and the ladder ends at the people already on it. lordjerith.substack.com/p/so…
the best time to join a guild is before it knows what it is. the first members write the culture everyone after them inherits.
vVv Gaming is forming up on Aion, NA East, Zikel server.
discord.gg/4JJcg3Chz
a machine will attend to you all day and ask nothing back, which makes it the easiest place in your life to keep your attention. i wrote about what that pressure did to me this spring: lordjerith.substack.com/p/is…
organizational change fails for the same reason personal change fails: people are asked to give up something that's working for them before they trust what replaces it. twenty years at company scale taught me that. one chair at a time keeps confirming it.
navy nuclear engineer, games executive, studio founder, and as of this week, a licensed mental health counselor in New Mexico. CRC certified, master's conferred, about 25 clients already. the resume finally makes sense.
zuckerberg's new manifesto is 6,500 words about everyone, and nearly every activity in it is something a person does alone with a machine. my full response: lordjerith.substack.com/p/is…
working in games professionally makes you worse at enjoying them. you see every retention hook, every session-length trick. so when an MMO gets me genuinely excited anyway, that reaction cleared a higher bar than any marketing ever could.
the machine may say it better. the person who has to live with you is the one who knows.
new essay on the AI empathy research, Martha Nussbaum, and advice from nowhere: lordjerith.substack.com/p/is…
vVv Gaming town hall tonight, 6PM MST / 8PM EST. i'm hosting. Aion 2 guild plans, community activities, and an open floor at the end. discord.gg/vmEebqXG4
running a vVv Gaming town hall on Aion 2. July 16, 5PM PST / 8PM EST. come hear the plan and ask questions.
discord.gg/XDS2HZcRf?event=1…
ai can write a perfect note telling someone they belong. warm, specific, well-built. written by something that has never belonged anywhere.
character is still built by showing up with a broom when nobody's checking.
i spent years watching the gaming industry go from making fun products to making addictive ones.
that's a big part of why i've become a licensed therapist.
open.spotify.com/episode/6cm…
forty hours a week or four. our Aion 2 guild has two lanes (casual core, raid team) and one culture. the lanes are permeable. a busy month never costs you your spot.
discord.com/channels/1507315…
vVv Gaming is going Asmodian again in Aion 2. some of the strongest community bonds I've seen in 19 years came from faction warfare in the original. looking forward to this one. aion2.plaync.com/en-us/conts…
your AI can produce a sharper recommendation than anyone on your team. it still won't move the room, because the room is weighing who's talking, and the AI has no record to weigh.
lordjerith.substack.com/p/th…
your AI can produce a sharper recommendation than anyone on your team. it still won't move the room, because the room is weighing who's talking, and the AI has no record to weigh.
lordjerith.substack.com/p/th…
second Weave AI Bootcamp class done. reviewing homework and the creatives are outpacing everyone: needlepoint patterns, novel writing, film festival submissions. people who already think in drafts adapt to AI fastest.
MIT is training military strategists with neural networks. the defense world doesn't adopt tech because it's trendy. they adopt it when ignoring it becomes dangerous.
dev.to/rawveg/war-games-neur…
sat on an AI panel at Hotel Encanto with Enrico Pontelli from NMSU. packed room. local small businesses asking sharp, specific questions about adoption.
the window where early movers gain a lasting edge is measured in months now.
