As a quarantine project, my son and I created this text based adventure game. He designed it and I helped him program. He’s 7 so expect weirdness. He got into this via Zork which we played to help with his reading. GO TO THE GAME
Category: Writing
Rethinking Books
I ran across a fascinating article by Andy Matuschak about how hard it is to learn much of anything from a non-fiction book. The basic premise is that the cognitive model of the non-fiction book is busted. People don’t learn well by simply reading words. They have to actively engage in metacognition to retain information…