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The six lean, long, years of starting up Pokémon
The Pokémon Company is owned by three companies. One company is Game Freak, which is owned by the person who came up with the original idea for Pokémon, Satoshi Tajiri. Game Freak developed the original Pokémon video games, and owns roughly ⅓ of the company. In 1990, Satoshi approached Nintendo to publish and distribute the…
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Early experiences with Pokémon
Over the past few days, I have waded into the waters of Pokémon stats—and there are a lot, most uncited!—which reminded me of a lesson I had learned. I’d written a similar, summary-style section of a book before, about a different topic, and my editor responded asking if I used AI. I hadn’t, but I…
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Evolve or die
Before people, dinosaurs ruled this world for many millions of years. I recently watched a great new miniseries on this topic, and the theme that resonated with me was evolution. More specifically, as the Earth’s environment changed, the dinosaurs that adapted were the ones that survived. Some species developed in size, smarts, or stamina. Others…
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The first Pokémon
It’s no surprise that Pikachu is the most popular Pokémon. (There’s literally a movie based on it!) But the title of the first Pokémon goes to an unexpected one. When art director Ken Sugimori was first tasked with designing Pokémon characters, he started off by drawing characters that looked like kaijuu. (If you’ve seen Godzilla,…
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How to find people who link to your blog
When you write a popular blog post, there’s a good chance that someone has linked to it. You just don’t know when and where. One simple technique you can try is to search your first name and last name in quotations, and then the subject of a blog post. For example, my blog post about…
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Your intentions need baking and cleaning
When you intend to do something, are you set up to follow through? If you find that it’s more difficult than you think, I’d like to suggest a metaphor and two techniques: Baking new intentions: Start your workday with a paper index card which has a list of a few tasks, preferably with the most…