Nobody's Perfect

You may have noticed that nothing was posted for a few days during last week on this blog. Although we have made a commitment that we will be always posting on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, last week we messed it up.

The reason? Our side project, CPU Wars, had to be shipped to all our backers and that took an excessively longer time than we had planned. It was the first time we were doing a task like this, at this kind of scale, and as expected we underestimated the effort needed. At least we got everything shipped and our backers are very happy.

Of course I felt bad about not keeping my promise and started judging my decisions, it's very difficult to quiet the inner voice. What's important is that I acknowledged my failure, came to terms with it and focused on what I had to do in that moment. At the end of the day, nobody's perfect and I had to choose what was most important at that moment.

Posted by Harry Mylonadis 

Let it Go

The biggest obstacle to simplifying something complex, is being able to let things go.

When we have created something, we feel very close to it and consider it as our possession. When the time comes that we need to remove it, we have second thoughts. We don't want to let go of something that is our creation. It feels like giving away part of ourselves.

This is something that you need to practice on and improve. You need to be able to let go of the non essential. Whether it's something you have written, drawn or created in any way. You have to identify the meaningful and let go of everything else. 

I know it's hard, your creation is like your child. If you don't learn to let go of things, you run a high risk of creating something complex. Practice on everything, from your material possessions to how you write. This is the only way you can create a habit and be able to let it go.

Posted by Harry Mylonadis