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Robin Sloan

American Author

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I am comfortable combining the old and the new. Robin Sloan

Old New Combining Comfortable Am

'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge. Robin Sloan

Knowledge Game Creation Secret About Yes Just Just As Much Much

For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and certainly hard, and often, you're staring at the page and thinking, like, 'Uh, is this any good? What am I doing?' Robin Sloan

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.' Robin Sloan

What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that's inert without the trigger of human attention. Robin Sloan

Game Man World Sky Rich Trigger Constitute Attention Like Without Human Grammar Themselves Really Specify Symbols Set

'Gone Home' is a game about exploration, and everything you'll experience is tied intimately to the space of the spooky house around you. Your task is simple: Poke around. Robin Sloan

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If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and... BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum. Robin Sloan

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I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are. Robin Sloan

Never Continue Should Believed Things

Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.' Robin Sloan

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When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the cars, seems, frankly, pretty absurd. Robin Sloan

You Car College Frankly City College Campuses Pretty Seems Only Absurd Idea Alongside Up Quiet Riding Right

It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be all the works of Charles Dickens; it could be all of the Internet. They can use grammar and put words together in interesting and convincing ways - and, I think, unexpected and beautiful ways. Robin Sloan

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Books are anchored. You return to books. You don't return to a tweet. Robin Sloan

You Books Anchored Return Tweet

On the Twitter media team, we believe that tweets drive TV tune-in. Robin Sloan

Drive Believe Twitter TV Team Tweets Media

A lot of folks focus on using Twitter as a marketing tool. They'll have a bump that says something like 'Tweet about the NewTeeVee show! Use the hashtag #newteevee.' And that's great - folks should definitely do that. What gets us really excited, though, is when they go an extra step and start to transform tweets into TV content. Robin Sloan

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I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too. Robin Sloan

You Digital Think Too Side About Exciting Exciting Things Stuff Most Also Operate Any Length Means Whole Eventually Publishing Things

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I'd change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on. Robin Sloan

Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more it sounded like... the Internet today. There was crazy competition and upheaval; there were constant arguments about new techniques, new materials, new machines; and, of course, there were fortunes to be made. Robin Sloan

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I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating. Robin Sloan

Internet Kid Computer Always Up Grew Fascinating Found

I think I'm one of those people that kind of thinks everybody's got an identity, and maybe that's the core of their personality. But I think we change enough over the years that it's like a succession of different people. Robin Sloan

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