Re: breaking the same old cycle

["Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>]

David Galiel wrote:

> It would be refreshing, for once, to find a developer forum where 
> people are more interested in learning from one another than lecturing 
> everyone else, in listening more than talking, in collaboration rather 
> than competition, in humility rather than incessant self-promotion.

David, it doesn't exist, and likely won't ever.  There are psychological 
/ managerial reasons for this.  Eddifying documents on the 
predictability of individual and group behavior:

http://www.teams.org.uk/shaper.htm
http://www.personalitypage.com

This list has a lot of Shapers.  They're going to get into conflicts.  
Shapers, on the other hand, are excellent when problems are amorphous.  
They tend to forge ahead despite political difficulties.

Just remember, if you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself!  
Forums are only useful to the degree that they fulfil your personal 
needs.  Which is why nobody talked around here for a loooooong time.  
Nobody had a need.  Perhaps after such a long silence, people are merely 
reviewing where they're at, where they've been, and where they're going.


Cheers,                     www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
                         - anonymous entrepreneur