If..Else Log

Hideo Kojima, creator and director of the Metal Gear series, has an english blog. Make sure, of course, to click through past the excerpts to the main content.

I love this choice quote from one of his posts:

I can’t handle PDAs. I can't really get a sense of organization like I do from a day planner. I need the touch of paper. Because of this, I've never used a PDA.

With paper in front of me, I can freely express my feelings and memories with words, figures, and drawings. Because of how I write and draw in a day planner, I can recall all these things easily. The darkness of a penstroke, the size of the handwriting, the care with which I form my script… a free hand can express many different types of information with different inflections. The digital world cannot replicate this.

On a similar note, I've got a story about meeting Hideo at a trade event which I'd love to share if my brother ever gives me permission…

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