The topic of too many, too inefficient meetings is definitely not a new one. But when we agreed on our most important team values in my current project recently, the uncontested number one value was efficient meetings. Our team felt that we have too many meetings with too many participants and too little remaining time…
In the 2019 Global Game Jam (GGJ), I worked in a team to create the game I Home You. Although a GGJ game is typically developed in around 48 hours after you know the theme of the jam, I Home You was created during a mere 24 hours. What seems to be quite a feat…
Context switches are expensive for human brains and even though many managers (other people too, but managers definitely) have convinced themselves that they can easily handle a multitude of tasks at the same time (e.g. take a second call and answer emails while in a meeting) the truth is they will underperform at all of…
Regular expressions are a powerful tool when you build an application that has to parse textual input. They are also useful in several other contexts. Some examples of where I’ve recently used them are: And I’m sure there are plenty more use cases that didn’t come to my mind right away. But coming up with…
Managers often get a lot of meeting invitations and I am no exception. And when it comes to meetings with many busy participants they sometimes tend to be scheduled very early in the morning, very late in the evening, during lunch breaks or on Fridays. So if you don’t enforce any rules on your calendar,…
In 2017 I helped organize the Global Game Jam but didn’t really feel like joining a team because I didn’t want any pressure to get anything done. Some time into the jam though and after looking at some game creation tools, I decided to give GDevelop a shot. This tool makes it easy to create…
This year’s Global Game Jam (GGJ) will take place soon and I’ll take part in it and join the Leipzig jam site as a participant and co-organizer again. This marks my tenth GGJ anniversary and so I thought it’s time for a look back to the jam games which I helped create. My first game…
Writing a thesis is a big undertaking that takes alot of time, motivation and self-organization to complete. Dedicated supervisors can help accomplish that, but ultimately it is up to the author of the thesis to get it done. In this post, I want to share experiences how to help the students from my point of…
One challenge at work is to keep all information and tasks organized. I used to take notes with pen and paper and sometimes I used OneNote to take notes for meetings. However, eventually a friend of mine suggested Obsidian to me and so I gave it a shot. And what shall I say – it’s…