These are the posts where I let my curiosity wander and write about what comes back. A given post could be about a current interest that I’m developing or even something new.
Most card games are complex beasts, especially collectable and living card games, where each card has some way of altering the basic rules. It can make actually enjoying the game right out of the box difficult. Android: Netrunner is no exception, especially as each of its two sides, Corp and Runner, have different playstyles and [...]
Facebook, if you’re subscribed to the right pages or people, can become a hall of positive thinking. It’s even better than those framed motivational posters you see on folks’ office walls. There’s one quote I’ve been noticing lately, and it goes something like this: “You’ve spent most of your life disapproving of yourself. Why not try approving of [...]
Marcus and I have been a pair of slackers on the BWI podcast. Between some log work hours for the both of us, we’ve been putting off recording an episode on our scheduled evening, and even more slack about uploading them once they’re done! So now we’re making sure we redress that. Here now are Episodes Fifteen [...]
You’ve probably noticed the headline that announces this episode as the first Brazen one. That’s because the Paid to Play Podcast has joined forces with Brazen Careerist! The folks at Brazen and I have a lot in common. We both want to help folks get the most satisfaction out of their working lives as possible. Brazen’s team of bloggers [...]
Marketing Classic Games: Trevor Longino - Paid to Play, Episode 28 [ 43:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (36)
On and off since I moved to Cairns, I’ve been in the odd effort to get a tabletop roleplaying game scene moving. Most recently, I set a Facebook group up and helped the newly-opened KerSplatt! Comics and Collectables choose which products to stock its RPG and card gaming shelf with. Yet for all my enthusiasm [...]
Even if you’ve never been in the military (I haven’t) you’vee probably seen a war movie or two. You know the bit when the new recruit turns up for his first fay of basic training and some big goon of a drill sergeant comes charging down the line of recurits, telling them: Shoulders back! Chest [...]
Ever since Clark Gable uttered that line right at the end of Gone With the Wind, it’s seemed easy to not give a damn about anything. Making lack of interest worse is how easy it is to express. Take, for example, “I don’t care.” It’s an extra syllable longer than “I care,” yet it’s got better rhythm, [...]
We talk a lot about career plans and focusing on goals when we think about where we want to be. But sometimes, you discover an opportunity that takes one of your side interests and shoves it off the pedestrian pavement and straight into your career path. For Lukas Litzsinger, that opportunity was a job vacancy on the [...]
Resurrecting Great Games: Lukas Litzsinger - Paid to Play, Episode 27 [ 37:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (136)
I’ve done a fair bit of posting on the blog lately about some big ideas, like envy. I’ve also uploaded a lot of podcast episodes. But one thing I’ve not done much of since I rebranded this blog into The Blog Of Living Curiously is post about the things that I’m, well, curious about. At least, not [...]
I’ve listened to a fair few life-change and small business podcasts in the last year or so, and a lot of them talk about Financial Freedom as an aim and an achievement. It’s one thing to hear podcasters in the States talk about it, though, and another thing to meet an example of it. Michelle [...]
Ultimate Freedom through Internet Entrepreneurship: Michelle Ward - Paid to Play, Episode 26 [ 29:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (67)