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About
Me
I'm currently a game designer at Backbone Entertainment, formerly
known as Digital Eclipse. We've got quite a few games going, and are
most noted for our games for mobile platforms, such as GameBoy and
now PlayStation Portable.
Anyway....
In former
years, I pictured myself a mathematician, which I was very close to
becoming as a math major at MIT. Though I have left that life
behind, I consider the training of applying logical, rigorous
thought to a situation to be valuable preparation for just about
anything. (At least that's what my math teacher said.)
I switched my
major and earned my degree in business, in hopes of someday starting
my own enduring company, or at the very least, being a major player
at the game of business.
Throughout all
of it, I have been a player of games. My artistic side enjoys games,
film, and literature as the media of stories. I have great ambition
to create such works after so many years of studying them. (Then
again, so did Tori
Spelling.) But I
also enjoy purely competitive games. Games of strategy and thought.
Games of victory and loss. Through such games as Street Fighter, I
have learned over the years the lessons winning and losing, the
feelings of victory and defeat, and the process of self-improvement
that is the path to victory. These games have taught me that playing
to win is the only kind of playing worthwhile, and they have also
taught me how to do it (even in national tournaments!).
I carry this
attitude towards business as well as games. I dream not just of
winning, but of crushing business competitors—of reducing them to
rubble and utterly destroying them. The means to this end, I
believe, are to walk the path of continuous self-improvement. By
developing products and services so far superior to one's enemies',
by looking inward and always trying to do better, one will
eventually pull far ahead. But great products don't come from mere
talent or sheer force of will—they come from great companies.
Anyone interested in building such a thing as an enduring company
would do well to read Built to
Last.
I hope to meet
individuals and teams who share my ideals and with whom I can
someday work to create great products.
--David Sirlin
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