I thought I could digitize the content in Radical Candor. I realized after three tries and a million dollars that story telling was still the best way to get the ideas across. The book and the talks and the workshops (for two way story telling, better yet) worked. The app didn't.
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Replying to @vgr
:) the thing is this. the point of the book is put your damn phone in your pocket, look a person in the eye and TALK. any app is a value subtracting round trip.
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Replying to @kimballscott
And looking at a book is different from looking at a phone how? Perhaps an assistant app to help use the method was a bad idea, but what about a learning game that takes less time to playthrough than reading a book?
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Replying to @vgr
It's a good question. For me there is no substitute for a novel for building real empathy for another person and also for self-awareness. I suspect we will use apps for story telling at some point but we haven't figured out how to do it yet.
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Replying to @vgr
Video games are the most effective way to destroy empathy and compassion and common human decency...very powerful, but in the wrong direction!
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Replying to @vgr @kimballscott
I actually designed and built an early prototype of a game called convo-fu designed to simulate workplace conversations with a few friends. We couldn’t carve out enough time to finish it
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shared old project folder with you over email :)
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