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I think these daily limits highlight what working hard really means in practice:

1. Being consistent through many days and years, not short-term intense effort.
2. Allocating effort on the tasks that best move you towards the goal, not on the tasks you enjoy working on. /5

If I switch tasks, I can do about 1.5-2 of those entire things before the whole brain is too tired.

So if I max out 2 tasks, I can't even do gaming afterwards! I have to fall back to really low-brain activities like feed-scrolling. I hate this feeling of mental incapacity. /4

On a good day I can do:
- Gaming 10 hours
- Coding 7 hours
- Reading (interesting book) 5 hours
- Paperwork 5 hours
- Game design 4.5 hours
- Reading (difficult book) 3 hours
- Article/book writing 3 hours
- Article/book editing 2.5 hours /3

The fatigue is task-specific. Each task has its own gas tank, and burns its tank at its own rate. There's also a universal limit.

After years of self-observation, I even know how long I can do specific tasks... /2

I believe in working very hard when you're trying to do something special.

But after a certain amount of effort, willpower is irrelevant. Like an exhausted muscle, the brain just stops working well. I look at the screen and... nothing comes to mind. /1

I made an Instagram for casual/life stuff

Discovering a new game genre is super valuable.

But many of those undiscovered genres are things that wouldn't appeal to us nerdy game devs.

This is the problem with "make the game you want to play". Other nerds just like you already did that.

RimWorld Console Edition has a new trailer for the Royalty expansion! I didn't even know they were going to do that. But it's cool. Maybe we should steal it.

.@windowscentral gives RimWorld Console Edition 5/5! Proud.

RimWorld Console Edition's launch trailer is up! This one was pretty funny.

It goes on sale in a few hours!

RimWorld Console Edition has an entirely new console-oriented UI. Here's the video @DoubleElevenLtd just made that talks about it:

We spent so much time going over details to get this juuuuust right... hope you enjoy!

The human brain can only natively process two kinds of thinking:

1. Everyday physics
2. Village politics

Every other kind of problem must first be mapped into one of these two before you can think about it.

RimWorld: Meet the Storytellers, a video about RimWorld's storytellers.

Made for the Console Edition but it applies to the PC version too.

Happy Canada Day!

I'm just sad we haven't added moose or poutine to RimWorld (yet).

Blog article on how @DoubleElevenLtd approached making RimWorld Console Edition: