Author Archives: Gigi

As a software engineer, it is unbelievably easy to get lost in the world of ‘least memory’, ‘most elegant solution’, or my all-time favorite, ‘fewest clock-cycles’. All of these ideas simply mean to maximize the performance of the code. This … Continue reading →

Direct Link To Paper: Creating Flow, Motivation, and Fun in Learning Games.  (PS – some external sites do not like direct links to a PDF format, so I used this blog post instead). In a 2010 Ted conference, Ali Car-Chellman … Continue reading →

Direct Link To Paper: Why Games Work – The Science of Learning. (PS – some external sites do not like direct links to a PDF format, so I used this blog post instead). A few months ago, I had a … Continue reading →

Near the end of Daniel Pink’s book, Drive, I found this quote: “Being a professional, is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.”  – Julius Irving. It’s wonderfully insightful and is … Continue reading →

I was reading Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow and I came across something new. Or, maybe it just seemed new the 2nd time. Whatever the reason, I had one of those, ‘holy cow!’ moments that sends chills up my arms. His words inspired … Continue reading →