Category: Creativity
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Early and late are relative
When you book a flight, you know you need to get to the airport by a certain time. If you need to get there four hours ahead of boarding time to feel comfortable, anything less than that buffer feels late. Even if you arrive two hours before boarding, you may feel like you should’ve been…
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Pokémon published Red and Green before making them perfect
It took Game Freak six years to develop the first Pokémon games, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green. It took four years longer than the original release date. Still, there were glitches, bugs, and errors. The artwork in the game (e.g., sprites) needed to be updated to match the more refined artwork from the packaging and…
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Pokémon, collection, and connection
When Satoshi Tajiri first came up with the idea for Pokémon, he was fueled by two inspirations. The first was his childhood passion for collecting bugs. The second was the Nintendo Gameboy’s Link Cable. Satoshi imagined bugs crawling back and forth between the Link Cable, and children being able to collect, compete, and connect. Later…
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Change your hands, change your psychology
When you want to receive energy and be open to what’s around you, rotate your palms up to the sky. Hold them there for as long as you like. When you want to ground your energy and be calm, rotate your palms down to the ground. You can elaborate on this, and put your palms…
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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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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…