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press.exe @[email protected] · 2025-12-09 · 14:30 UTC

Dev Pile: Well AM I Better At Making Games?

When talking about reflection on your own process and your own work, there’s a foundational challenge: where you are when you do that reflection. Any person is going to be affected by the situation they’re in. That’s just the nature of existing in a reality full of interactions. Not a lot of room to not be connected to things as a timeless spaceless mind outside of reality, which is obviously what we’d want if we wanted to be truly objective in our analysis of ourselves.

Because of this, reflection on complicated things often needs a system to give you something to handle. I’ve talked about this in the context of reflecting on big life events and personal development — like asking, “Am I a good partner?” or “Am I a good person?” which are both well beyond my scope. I instead used the example of reflecting on improving at playing Magic: The Gathering, which I will make clear, neither makes me a good person or a good partner. In fact there was a point that I in fact did the opposite. At the time, described how one could hypothetically apply this same set of tools to imagine the question: “Am I, Talen Lee, any better at making games?”

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press.exe @[email protected] · 2025-12-09 · 14:30 UTC

Dev Pile: Well AM I Better At Making Games?

When talking about reflection on your own process and your own work, there’s a foundational challenge: where you are when you do that reflection. Any person is going to be affected by the situation they’re in. That’s just the nature of existing in a reality full of interactions. Not a lot of room to not be connected to things as a timeless spaceless mind outside of reality, which is obviously what we’d want if we wanted to be truly objective in our analysis of ourselves.

Because of this, reflection on complicated things often needs a system to give you something to handle. I’ve talked about this in the context of reflecting on big life events and personal development — like asking, “Am I a good partner?” or “Am I a good person?” which are both well beyond my scope. I instead used the example of reflecting on improving at playing Magic: The Gathering, which I will make clear, neither makes me a good person or a good partner. In fact there was a point that I in fact did the opposite. At the time, described how one could hypothetically apply this same set of tools to imagine the question: “Am I, Talen Lee, any better at making games?”

[…]

https://press.invincible.ink/dev-pile-2025-50-well-am-i-better-at-making-games/ #DevPile2025

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press.exe @[email protected] · 2025-12-09 · 14:30 UTC

Dev Pile: Well AM I Better At Making Games?

When talking about reflection on your own process and your own work, there’s a foundational challenge: where you are when you do that reflection. Any person is going to be affected by the situation they’re in. That’s just the nature of existing in a reality full of interactions. Not a lot of room to not be connected to things as a timeless spaceless mind outside of reality, which is obviously what we’d want if we wanted to be truly objective in our analysis of ourselves.

Because of this, reflection on complicated things often needs a system to give you something to handle. I’ve talked about this in the context of reflecting on big life events and personal development — like asking, “Am I a good partner?” or “Am I a good person?” which are both well beyond my scope. I instead used the example of reflecting on improving at playing Magic: The Gathering, which I will make clear, neither makes me a good person or a good partner. In fact there was a point that I in fact did the opposite. At the time, described how one could hypothetically apply this same set of tools to imagine the question: “Am I, Talen Lee, any better at making games?”

[…]

https://press.invincible.ink/dev-pile-2025-50-well-am-i-better-at-making-games/ #DevPile2025

#devpile2025

press.exe @[email protected] · 2025-12-09 · 14:30 UTC

Dev Pile: Well AM I Better At Making Games?

When talking about reflection on your own process and your own work, there’s a foundational challenge: where you are when you do that reflection. Any person is going to be affected by the situation they’re in. That’s just the nature of existing in a reality full of interactions. Not a lot of room to not be connected to things as a timeless spaceless mind outside of reality, which is obviously what we’d want if we wanted to be truly objective in our analysis of ourselves.

Because of this, reflection on complicated things often needs a system to give you something to handle. I’ve talked about this in the context of reflecting on big life events and personal development — like asking, “Am I a good partner?” or “Am I a good person?” which are both well beyond my scope. I instead used the example of reflecting on improving at playing Magic: The Gathering, which I will make clear, neither makes me a good person or a good partner. In fact there was a point that I in fact did the opposite. At the time, described how one could hypothetically apply this same set of tools to imagine the question: “Am I, Talen Lee, any better at making games?”

[…]

https://press.invincible.ink/dev-pile-2025-50-well-am-i-better-at-making-games/ #DevPile2025

#devpile2025

:rss: DevelopersIO @[email protected] · 2025-12-09 · 12:26 UTC

【登壇レポート】「re:Growth 2025 東京：これからの運用が変わる!? AWS DevOps Agent とは」というテーマで登壇しました！ #AWSreInvent #cmregrowth
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/re-growth-tokyo-2025-aws-devops-agent-awsreinvent-cmregrowth/

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