Allen Pike

Allen is a designer and developer who runs Steamclock Software ( https://steamclock.com/ ) in Vancouver.

Giving a Shit as a Service - https://allenpike.com/2022/giving-a-shit - A mental model for service businesses.

An Unreasonable Amount of Time - https://allenpike.com/2024/an-unreasonable-amount-of-time - A method for Magic.

• Teller describes the underlying principle like so: Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
• This is true of tricks, and also of crafts.
• The pianist whose fingers seem supernaturally nimble, the presenter whose message seems viscerally compelling, and the artist whose paintings seem impossibly realistic all wield the same magic: they’ve invested more time than you’d expect.
• It just takes some time.