I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message. Robin Sloan More Quotes by Robin Sloan More Quotes From Robin Sloan Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to follow directions or create directions in a very systematic way. Robin Sloan your baking brain way Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness. Robin Sloan darkness time life long I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the darker ones and the dystopias. Robin Sloan some think science culture A gift shouldn't feel like homework. Robin Sloan gift feel like homework Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like 3, 7, and 13 are random. The lower-end primes have incredible resonance in fiction and art. Robin Sloan random me unique art 'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge. Robin Sloan game creation secret knowledge For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and certainly hard, and often, you're staring at the page and thinking, like, 'Uh, is this any good? What am I doing?' Robin Sloan good me you thinking We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if we do like them, even if we tweet them out to all of our followers on Twitter, we don't return to it. Robin Sloan looking day look sometimes For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.' Robin Sloan down library book school This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it. Robin Sloan think you change history I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment... so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there's this peripheral haze. Robin Sloan man work time love Whether it's 'Fish' or 'Annabel Scheme' or 'The Truth About the East Wind,' I often find myself crafting custom containers to hold the kind of content I want to create. Robin Sloan fish myself truth wind I want to learn to weld. Robin Sloan learn want What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that's inert without the trigger of human attention. Robin Sloan game man sky world My parents live in northern Michigan, and every year, in the summer, we visit them for a few weeks. Robin Sloan live parents year summer If a shop has a neon Superman logo in the window, I will enter. If it has a neon Superman logo in the window, a Bat-symbol next to it, and a dragon under the eaves, I am already inside. Robin Sloan inside i-am will window 'Gone Home' is a game about exploration, and everything you'll experience is tied intimately to the space of the spooky house around you. Your task is simple: Poke around. Robin Sloan you experience simple home If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and... BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum. Robin Sloan i-am game myself moments Prediction just means you saw where the world might be going: ho-hum. Influence, though - ah. Influence, direct and acknowledged, means you actually steered the world, even if only a tiny bit. Robin Sloan just you influence world I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are. Robin Sloan continue never things should
