# Stuff I remember for some reason * ████ (before the age of 10) saying "I can keep talking if I don't stop to think!" * that poster in my room of all the ████ of ████ * ████ — first guy crush * The cave interior in Greedy Zebra (Hadithi, Kennaway) * The 9 Tasks of Mistry (McEwan), and in particular the Cage of Illusion (bit heavy-handed for that to stick in my memory but hey sometimes you get a freebie) * The Fallen Spaceman (Harding) * Learning that breath rates sync up when you're physically close — and observing that experience myself with someone, for the first time * When I was really young, I was terrified of onscreen animation * My mom taught me stop-motion animation with our home camcorder and some blocks, to help me get past it * When my siblings and I were all kids, we tried to watch The NeverEnding Story (1984), and we all freaked out — couldn't do it * I remember knowing (middle school? high school?) that a logo should be easy to draw with a single pen — not dependent on shading or color * "There is no life, I know // To compare with pure imagination // Living there, you'll be free // If you truly wish to be" — that last line feels like a clause, always has * Always felt straightforward to me that we make games because we're playing one * Always wondered if animals knew not to look at the sun * It's always felt like everything has the same core personality, down at the center * I wonder if this is why I can't detect evil? because literally *no* form of consciousness is toxic to me? because I ammmmmmm... well, because "I AM", and that's the level I hang out at? * "the music of the spheres" — remember hearing this in a little discoverable spot inside a Magic School Bus computer game, and having it *sharply* draw my attention * "we are coterminous" :point\_down: sample from Half-Life: Alyx {% file src="" %} * “STUDY NATURAL LAW” — painted on someone’s roof in wisconsin, visible from the highway * from my apple interview: “how do you know a deeply complex system is fully okay, and that it's safe to do updates? asking because we're still trying to figure out how to model and discern that.”