Jordan117

Why rotate the hours every day like that? Wouldn't it be better to have different sets of people each sticking to the same shift every day? Or at least rotating shifts on a weekly or monthly basis? It seems like terrible sleep hygiene to have your schedule change constantly like that, which can't be good for your concentration.

Hi Dr. Watts -- big fan! I was the one who put together this in-depth guide to your work the other day for anybody unfamiliar -- thanks for dropping by in the comments!

I was curious about the names you chose in Blindsight -- they seem split between the fairly ordinary (Susan James, Amanda Bates, Jim Moore) and the unconventional (Siri Keeton, Isaac Szpindel, Jukka Sarasti). What made you decide on these names? Do they have any deeper meaning?

edit: Heh -- for anybody wondering, the "MeFi" in Dr. Watts' OP is referring to MetaFilter, the community blog I posted that guide to and invited him to visit yesterday. This is Reddit, man -- don't cross the streams!

1. Do you actually play Minecraft recreationally anymore, or do you focus more on coding/business/etc.?

2. Playing certain games extensively can start to affect the way you see the world -- Tetris is the classic example, where obsessed players imagine rotating blocks even when they're not playing. As the creator of Minecraft, have the game's mechanics ever intruded on your thinking like that?

perhaps because they just pledged to raise more money than the democratic and republican parties combined.

just a guess, tho.

That's why I love it -- it's hilarious how a community priding itself on ultra-rational thought goes so far around the bend that they warp around to the other side and end up re-inventing a basic religious argument like Pascal's Wager.