"Half trash compactor, half empty." Composting; Overdesigning

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! · Jul 24, 2025

Ellen's back for a serendipitously in-sync pair of metacognition-rich roundtable topics. In this episode, Lydia shares a chapter from one of her favorite books and tries to explain ganache while Stephen laments how easy it is to duct tape on features instead of solving problems. Together they discover four brains are better than one when it comes to figuring out how to get out of your head.

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Composting

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

Bonbon

Wikipedia

The Croissant Express diner mentioned in the book, formerly located on the corner of the Uptown Theater building.

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