My 5-min Micro-talk! “Human Brains Are Awesome, Human Brains Suck”
Added 2019-04-02 17:01:01 +0000 UTCHere's the micro-talk I gave at the Game Developer Conference two weeks ago! This one's about games & the cognitive science of learning.
📹 Human Brains Are Awesome, Human Brains Suck (5 min)
I recorded my own version because, wow, my legs & voice were probably shaking the whole time I was on stage at GDC. Everyone's micro-talk slides advanced automatically. I had no control over the timing. Oh god
I also gave another(?!) talk earlier last month at the NYU Games Center. That one was recorded by them, but I'm not sure when they'll post it online. Will let you know when I do! It's basically an "Extended Play" of this micro-talk, but with extra stuff like "the expertise reversal paradox", a breakdown of The Evolution of Trust, and a long, rambling Q&A.
Anyway – I'm back now! To be honest I'm a bit exhausted, so I might take it slower for a while. But I am happy to finally return to making that anxiety story-game with the wolf. (The demo should be out in a couple weeks? Stay tuned!)
Again: thank you so, so, so much for gifting me the autonomy to make helpful learn-y games & talks like this. :)
<3,
~ Nicky Case
Comments
The mathematical field of category theory seems to take this into account. They say it's the math of math.
Anonymous
2020-11-13 04:32:19 +0000 UTCGreat talk! Interesting point that learning just one new connection can use up all 4 chunks.
Tim S
2019-04-13 18:57:00 +0000 UTCThis is a perfect short talk. My teacher brain was trying to re-order the letters looking for the pattern as you slid it into "X" "Cable News" "X". But this really echoes how I try to teach stuff in regular life as well.. I'm literally working on some slides this weekend that breaks up my team's quarterly deliverables in these chunks of 4. I started drawing the big web and it was clearly too much, so I'm layering the map. 5 top-level bullets, 4 bullets under each, etc.
Gaëtan Perrault
2019-04-06 06:19:24 +0000 UTCI think the person who uploaded it may have put up an older buggier version, but the core of the concept is there anyway 😬
Bridget Schiffler
2019-04-04 20:14:04 +0000 UTCYeah!! It’s up on itch at <a href="https://synthoid.itch.io/pizza-roll" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://synthoid.itch.io/pizza-roll</a>
Bridget Schiffler
2019-04-04 20:13:19 +0000 UTCThank you! I was sad to miss your pizza-katamari game too. (Is it posted online anywhere?)
Nicky Case
2019-04-03 19:36:10 +0000 UTCReally good short sweet talk! Nailed it with the example! Kudos!
Mayank Jain
2019-04-03 05:07:50 +0000 UTCSuch a good talk!! I was sad to miss it but thanks for uploading it after the fact 👌💖✏️
Bridget Schiffler
2019-04-02 20:28:02 +0000 UTCWhoa! It's useful advice, thank you very much.
Ivan
2019-04-02 17:24:56 +0000 UTCoh wow. LOL'd hard at "hail satan". great work!
Phil Dougherty
2019-04-02 17:06:55 +0000 UTC
