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The death signal has started ... Will it reach those who need to hear it in time? It will. Either they will hear from the signal itself. Or from the angry armed mob delivering the message.

But in the case of the latter... they will not be able to act on their new found information. And the angry mob that is now executive leadership? They now have the privilege of realizing just how difficult game design is.

I'd venture to say that this "Neighbors" problem is the key to world peace. Being able to have a close relationship with all your colleagues means you have the skill to solve world peace.

Most of us keep distance through protocols. We're good neighbors only because we keep distance. At large companies everyone maintains this ritualized distance.

At startups you have the potential for more intimacy but more than likely it's a cesspool of suppressed negative emotions. If it feels 'right', it feels like a 'family'... and happy families are so hard to form...

Recognizing that your family relationship is shit (most families are) is the first step to finding a real family sense. If you're stuck thinking your family relationships had no issues you end up aspiring to a past image thus rebirthing old neurosis'

E.g. the girl who goes through terrible boyfriend after boyfriend while her friends can obviously see that's she is going after the same type over and over again.

Realizing that what you're looking for isn't an experience you've actually experienced gives you the 'beginner's mind' to recognize what it is when it occurs.