This is the Beer Game. Beer is ordered by the customer at the retailer (he passed a slip of paper with a number on it to my friend sitting in front of the retailer slot). The retailer orders from the wholesaler, by passing him a paper slip with an order number on it. The wholesaler orders from the distributor and the distributor orders from the producer.

The goal of the game is to maximize profit. You make money for orders fulfilled. You lose money for keeping inventory and for unfulfilled backorders. Once you get orders, there is a four week delay as the paperwork is processed, the beer is picked, it goes onto a pallet, then goes onto a truck and finally gets delivered.

RT @kentbrew: Just purchased: Shay Pierce's "Connectrode." Backstory:

When used long-term, Crunch Mode slows development and creates more bugs when compared with 40-hour weeks.

More than a century of studies show that long-term useful worker output is maximized near a five-day, 40-hour workweek. Productivity drops immediately upon starting overtime and continues to drop until, at approximately eight 60-hour weeks, the total work done is the same as what would have been done in eight 40-hour weeks.

In the short term, working over 21 hours continuously is equivalent to being legally drunk. Longer periods of continuous work drastically reduce cognitive function and increase the chance of catastrophic error. In both the short- and long-term, reducing sleep hours as little as one hour nightly can result in a severe decrease in cognitive ability, sometimes without workers perceiving the decrease.

An amazing 24 hours at Kickstarter: Screw jetpacks. THIS is truly the future.

"Hacking Carbon Emissions into Minecraft" /via

"5 Personality Flaws Skyrim Forces You To Deal With" /via @byharryconnolly

Paul Lamere's Name Dropper music game: (@xbora, @flightresponse)

Simple, beautiful and fun flash game/animation/interactive art thing.

"Bastard Tetris" denies you the best possible next piece.