Gamification and Beyond: Posting of a My Talk in a Post Edition
I saw a good friend of mine who is very smart and I respect very much - he still finds the time to talk with me though. He told me he likes my blog, but asked a question he said he hoped would not offend me. "Do you write your blog for yourself on in the hopes of gaining an audience? Because if you write them for an audience, you really should have a point." I may be paraphrasing a bit, but it came out like that in my mind. It was kind of a funny question because I never really thought about writing for anyone else. My blog is completely self indulgent and admittedly, often only finds entertainment or genius at the point of creation. The blog is actually a permanent record of the thoughts I find fascinating, and often the expression is only intelligible to me. Along the same lines, when Ken Rutkowski asked me to speak to his METal Internationa l group, I was honored, and excited by the opportunity to entertain - myself. Because ...
