Last week, our cultural consultant Dr. Erich Longie and our co-founder Maria Burns Ortiz traveled to Prior Lake, Minnesota (right outside of the Twin Cities) to attend the biennial Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium. The event brings together Native Americans from across Minnesota and the surrounding areas to discuss issues relating […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
In designing Fish Lake, we have largely followed the Common Core State Standards and closely studied test questions from the various samples released to give schools an idea what to expect. There are times, however, when Common Core and I are at odds. For one thing, the assertion that one […]
The Common Core and Me
Jugglers don’t get paid very well – and sometimes the balls hit them in the head. That quote is supposed to remind us of the dangers of trying to do too many things at once. Thirty years ago, I was working as an engineer in aerospace, and I swear that […]
Jugglers Don’t Get Paid Very Well
I post here often, as does Maria Burns Ortiz, our Chief Marketing Officer and our intern/ research associate, David Berning. Occasionally, we get a post from Dr. Erich Longie, our senior cultural consultant and Dennis De Mars, our senior game developer. A team we rarely have represented is our artists, […]
Pictures from Fish Lake – watching the game as it’s ...
We’ve had a busy few weeks. As we recently posted, we received a USDA Phase II grant for $450,000. Of course, being notified you’ve received the grant and getting the money deposited in your account are two different things. The last couple weeks started with our CEO and accountant starting […]
Spirituality – and how we know we chose the right ...
Years ago, a client who had called me four times in three days to give me a contract, ended her last call with, “You must be independently wealthy that you don’t want this money I’m trying to give you.” Actually, I was on an American Indian reservation that, at the […]
One BILLION Dollars: Or why we are selling our game ...
A post on “toxic lies about start-up culture” by Shanley Kane really got me to thinking about our company. One of the lies she challenges is that meetings are evil, so you should have as few of them as possible. Our staff spans seven cities in three states, so getting together […]