Category: Creator Confidential
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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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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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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…