Matt Gardner, Susie’s brother, has joined us at Hop Studios. He’s going to be a great addition to the company, I can already tell. For instance, he brought a Nintendo Game Cube with him.
He’s in our house for about a month, to be trained and set up and to find out about all our current projects and so forth. He’ll meet some of the folks in our industry, too, and some of our other contractors like Mike and James.
Matt has a Masters degree in Graphic Design, and a Web site that should have a blog, but doesn’t. Cut him some slack, it’s Day 1. He’ll have a Web site by Day 3, I’m sure.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)