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Octopath Traveler 0 came out a week ago and I’ve been hooked on the game.

There’s plenty of critical acclaim for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I’m right there with everyone else.

For every recent Nintendo Direct I would proclaim that it was finally time for both a remaster of Xenoblade Chronicles X and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to be announced.

Twenty-six years after the release of Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green on the Game Boy we have finally gotten received a noteworthy evolution to the mainline series: Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Manager Reads returns after a year-long plus hiatus with The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford.

The Tales series has reliably produced solid JRPGs for a long time now.

This edition of Manager Reads covers a unique and interesting book: The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy by Tristam Adams.

My journey to combat the planned obsolescence of my 2008 Mac Pro might have finally hit a wall.

As new year activities at work have settled down and my son is getting slightly better at sleeping through the night I found some time to play some more video games.

Kicking off a new year of Manager Reads we are covering Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms by Shellye Archambeau.

Trails of Cold Steel 4 (TOCS4) is more than just the fourth game and closing act of the Cold Steel tetralogy.

After successfully ending the Erebonian Civil War in Trails of Cold Steel 2 the war hero, Rean Schwarzer, is now an instructor at a new branch campus of his former alma mater.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for both Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Some time off from work for a staycation brings us this episode of Manager Reads which covers The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Bob Iger.

As work from home for many companies has been extended indefinitely the need for keeping your team engaged has become even more important.

Reading has slowed down a bit since the release of Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition but this long overdue episode of Manager Reads covers The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni.

Instrumenting the journey of people you interview is critical to understanding and improving your interview processes.

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is less than a week away from release on the Nintendo Switch and I am so excited!

As I approach the ten year anniversary of my move from New Jersey to California to begin my career, today marks seven years of blogging on mark.gg!

Organizational design has always interested me and thanks to Spotify I finally got a book recommendation so without further ado… In this edition of Manager Reads we cover Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew S…

Dread sets in whenever a new version of Xcode releases.

In this episode of Manager Reads we enter the room, take a seat at the table, and review The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts.

Three years ago Susan Fowler published an explosive blog post detailing sexual harassment at Uber.

Interviewing is hard - the interview is an artificial environment where you are trying to assess someone’s ability in one hour.

Changing gears from the usual books covered in Manager Reads today we dive into the world of systems in Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H.

To effectively manage recurring operational work like sending weekly update and roadmap updates it’s good to batch it all together and set it up as a recurring event on your calendar.

A memory that has stuck with me from my days as an engineer was being called the glue of the team.

After a short hiatus of Manager Reads posts caused by catching up on posts for previous entries and a newborn, the first entry of 2020 is here!

It’s that time again yet again… Time to plow through some anime!

This retrospective is long overdue given I did the first Manager Reads retrospective after four books and have now covered twenty books in the Manager Reads series.

This holiday season - in between diaper changes, feeds, and meltdowns - I dove into a bunch of literature.

When I shared my Managing Management - Time Management via Color-Coded Calendar blog post on Twitter it got some nice traction because of a generous retweet from Will Larson.

This past summer at Twitch I went from working with our Viewer Experience team to owning all viewer-side features on mobile.

After Xenoblade Chronicles, Trails of Cold Steel is my favorite JRPG series the past decade has blessed us with.

After getting hooked on the ridiculously long demo, I dove into Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age when it came out for the Switch at the end of September. 118 hours later, I’m finally done with the game!

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age came out on the PS4 and Steam on September 18th, 2018.

After a couple of starts I wasn’t able to follow through on, I finally started and finished Grandia!

Nintendo is on a roll and the latest Nintendo Direct doubles down on that.

Channel Points are now available on Twitch on Android, iOS, and Web!

As a manager you’ll get questions and requests from many people coming through different mediums: the very traditional in-person ask, Slack, email, text messages.

After months of teasers and announcements of everything except a release date, GungHo finally delivered on giving us a release date for the Grandia HD Collection: 10 days from today on August 16th!

Given it’s been a few months filled with exclusively leadership and management book reading, I focused on fun reading in July.

Some say Avengers: Endgame is the greatest crossover of all time, but Cadence of Hyrule - an unlikely mash-up between the indie roguelike rhythm game Crypt of the NecroDancer and the Legend of Zelda - is definitely in the running in my book.

The twentieth entry in the Manager Reads series covers a book hot off the press!

It’s that time again… Time to plow through anime and movies I’ve been meaning to watch but haven’t gotten around to yet.

Companies want everyone to follow the rules but in today’s Manager Reads episode are we throwing that out the window?

Happy birthday to my good friend, Josh Wu, and happy birthday to the venerable mark.gg!

My 2012 MacBook Pro is still chugging along and can install the latest macOS Mojave but my primary computer at home, a 2008 Mac Pro, is stuck on the 2015 iteration of macOS: El Capitan.

Manager Reads Episode XVIII: The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership by Fred Kofman.

Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin is a mobile JRPG for Android and iOS devices.