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All the articles I've posted.
3 Techniques For Reducing Team Anxiety
Building healthy esports communities turns out to look a lot like building healthy work teams. Here are three things that reliably reduce a team's anxiety.
"Coaching Esports: A Model For Player Improvement"
Coaching experience from traditional sports translates well to esports. Here's my model for helping a player develop to their maximum potential, individually and as a team.
What Makes a Party Next Leve
Fifteen years of GameTruck parties taught me this: renting video games is easy, but that's not what people buy. They're buying a memory worth cherishing.
What Games Can Teach Us About Motivation
Solve one problem in a game and you earn a harder one. That's not discouraging — it's the point. What games reveal about motivation and the infinite game.
What is Better Than Winning?
'Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.' We all know the quote. But evenly matched contests are rare — so what is actually better than winning?
What Difference Does a Game Coach Make?
People think they're buying the cool GameTruck trailer. They're not — they're buying an effect. What a great Game Coach actually delivers, and why it matters.
The Power of Balance
The Power of Balance Did you know that humans can not see combinations of Red and Green? According to opponent processing theory, our eyes are set up in a…
Why you want to get on Discord now.
After explaining Discord to clients one too many times, I wrote the primer. Not a tutorial — the professional case for why you want to get on Discord now.
Laser Tag Tag Gets Your Gamer Outside
2020 brought a surprise: booming demand for laser tag. Parents wanted their kids out of the house — a throwback to when we played outside until the streetlights came on.
How Connection Affects Work From Home Teams
How Connection Affects Work From Home Teams According to the reading I had done, psychological safety was supposed to be just as impactful on remote teams…
How to Create Community Engagement in Esports
Picture a sixteen-foot LED wall, every console crowded, a coach in a blue shirt. That's what building real community engagement into an esports event looks like.
What You are Missing — when you Don’t Play Video Games With Your Kids
Playing video games with your kid is a chance to build a bridge to their future. Here's what you might be missing by sitting the next round out.