Here’s a nifty reverse-chronological archive of my posts that doesn’t suck as much as Wordpress’s default. :)

August 2008

• Experienced Outsourced Art Production Manager available for hire!

July 2008

• Improving contractor feedback

June 2008

• Jon Jones speaks at Casual Connect Seattle!
• Project: Outsource Everything followup - SUCCESS!

May 2008

• Seven Maxims of Writing smArt Feedback

March 2008

• Contracting tip: Layered PSD paintovers for color roughs!
• What motivates you to work?
• Contracting Tip: Bi-weekly payments for maximum motivation!

January 2008

• Daxter sells 2 million!
• Updated Blogroll.
• Productivity Tip #13: PathCopy for fast pathname copying!

December 2007

• Outsourcing Animation: What Do They Need To Know?
• Outsourcing Concept Art smArtly

October 2007

• Life kicked ME in the nuts. I kick back!

August 2007

• Work-specific IM accounts

July 2007

• Stabbing my life in the face, part 2!
• link: 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website
• Learning In Progress #10: Writing Effective Criticisms
• Environment Artist Portfolio Tips
• Productivity Tip #12: ThumbPlug TGA for TGA thumbnails in Explorer!
• Productivity Tip #11: TaskSwitch XP - A better way to Alt-Tab
• Productivity Tip #10: Incredible search tool! Agent Ransack
• Project: Outsource Everything
• Advice for aspiring game developers

June 2007

• Plugged on Monster.com!
• Netvibes for being up-to-the-minute with news and blogs
• Tracking To-Dos, Calendar and Contacts the smArtist way.
• Blogroll
• Featuring Top Commentators and Subscribe to Comments!

May 2007

• 7 Tips for Writing smArter Emails
• The Freelancer’s Toolset
• Little Thoughts #3: Don’t skim emails.
• Little Thoughts #2: Stick to filename conventions!
• Little Thoughts #1: Everyone likes to get involved.
• Learning In Progress #9: Concept Art Repository
• Learning In Progress #8: Rigging change lists
• Flickr rules.

April 2007

• Learning In Progress #7: Changing naming conventions
• Learning In Progress #6: Contractor Kits
• What Would A Game Developer Do?
• Learning In Progress #5: Instant overview of contractor and budget information!
• 4 Tips on Making More Money as a Contractor
• Outsourcing a lot of tiny stuff made easier
• 4 Time Estimate Tips for Contractors
• Link: Art for Games, not Games for Art
• 101 Hidden Tips and Secrets for Photoshop
• 7 tips for dealing with contractors
• On contracting animators

March 2007

• Top 5 Photoshop CS3 features revealed!
• Life is good.
• Productivity Tip #9: RocketDock to free you from the Taskbar forever!
• Productivity Tip #8: Launchy for hyper-fast file access!
• MIT’s Sloan School of Management courses online, FREE!
• Productivity Tip #7: Remove window blinks from your IMs with Gaim.
• Learning In Progress #4: Making time… with a vengeance!

February 2007

• Learning In Progress #3: Numbered Bullet Points.
• Portfolio Tip #4: Don’t show works in progress.
• Portfolio Tip #3: Don’t write long emails in a job app.
• 8 Steps to Cheaper Contractors!
• Sell people on your ideas for awesome results!

January 2007

• Learning In Progress #2: The Character Tree
• Learning In Progress #1: Sorting asset submissions
• Portfolio Tip #2: Name and watermark your images.
• Portfolio Tip #1: Don’t include art tests in your portfolio
• Productivity Tip #6: Windows shortcuts to commonly-accessed folders.
• Productivity Tip #5: Fill small pockets of downtime.

December 2006

• Productivity Tip #4: Take notes to train your mind!
• Let me know if your comment gets deleted.
• I’ve been doing this for nine years?
• How to ensure response to your email

November 2006

• I cleaned up the site and added stuff!
• Archives
• Contact Jon!
• testtesttest
• Introducing… smArtist Reading!
• smArtist Reading
• Good Little Habits #2: Everything in increments = Automatic Ass Kicking!
• Good Little Habits #1: Turn Impulsive Spending into Impulsive Responsibility
• Productivity tip #3: Remove distracting stuff from your field of view.
• Embrace the irrational! Abandon logic!

October 2006

• Productivity Tip #2: Remove icons from Quicklaunch bar.
• Bully kicks ass — so far.
• I got a new car! :D
• The mohawk is gone.
• Overachievement - Buy this book if you want to succeed.

September 2006

• Productivity tip #1: Focus better with post-its.
• NCsoft = teh awesome.

August 2006

• Comments FIXED!
• Ignore the Anti-Learning Brigade.
• Personal inertia and engines of success!
• Destroy your timesinks.
• Problem = Steps to Solution
• WARNING: Narcissism inside!
• Artists that kick ass.

July 2006

• People hate the smArtist!
• I love Austin!

June 2006

• I’m an Art Production Manager at NCsoft Austin.
• Living in Austin now!
• Make Friends Everywhere You Go
• Harness your inner idiot.
• I’m leaving Ready At Dawn.

May 2006

• I’m still alive!
• E3 is just around the corner!
• Most popular smArticles

April 2006

• Danger, destruction and dog food!
• Kick your life in the face!
• Pain management!

March 2006

• Vacation begins!
• You’re more capable than you think!
• I just threw it all away.
• People freaking love Daxter.
• Daxter’s first review online! 9 out of 10!
• Daxter shipping early! In stores 3/15!
• You decide to fail every day.

February 2006

• DAXTER GOES GOLD!!!!!
• I wrote a Developer Diary for Daxter!
• Starbucks: Company with a Soul!
• You can do anything. Ask Robert Rodriguez.

January 2006

• New Daxter trailer and details!
• Unposed model renders? That’s a death knell.
• Leap before you look, or you never will.

December 2005

• These freakishly hot ladies have unfortunately lost their clothes.
• With each rejection, you’re closer to ‘yes.’
• um..
• Crazy? No, just art up the yin-yang!
• Happiness is a CHOICE.
• Dolls are COOL!
• NanoLegends art released!

November 2005

• Quick update - just a fun self-written bio.
• Advertising is the game industry, and boot-strapping rocks!

October 2005

• Brain… come ALIVE, brain!
• Your portfolio repels jobs
• You’ll never have time.

September 2005

• A very cool IP development worklog
• Approaching one-dimensionality

August 2005

• Don’t stop being better!
• Smart people are dumb. Failure is awesome.
• Huntington Vista apartments disregards human lives
• Art sucks. Most artists should be drowned.

July 2005

• HOLY CRAP! Browse the web with your Sony PSP!
• Mountain Dew X Variant No. 516 + Power Pack
• No energy? No brain? No problem!
• Outsourcing Art: Ten Steps to Success

June 2005

• Be social? I’m not! You mean.. you mean to LIE?!??!?
• Marketing for Artists
• Been busy brutally murdering imaginary people.
• iPod - my favorite and most hated gadget
• All Marketers Are Liars, and I’m a dick.

May 2005

• Stalker?!
• New URL and layout!
• 2,500 ladybugs delivered!
• Daxter most anticipated E3 PSP title!
• Ah, time… how violently you kick me in the brain.
• Thousands of ladybugs for mother’s day? Oh, Jon, you didn’t!

April 2005

• Crunch. Ow! Grind. Dammit! Repeat infinitely.
• Daxter PSP announced!

March 2005

• Warren Buffett. Decidely not smorgasbord nomenclature!

January 2005

• Time to start a new tradition.

December 2004

• I haven’t been doing much thinking since July.

October 2004

• I really hate Maya sometimes.
• Ready At Dawn rocks so far.
• I’m living in California now.

September 2004

• Alfred Bester, how I love thee.
• Time Management
• Burnout 3 kicks ass and Orange County apartments suck.
• I’m leaving Liquid Development.

June 2004

• Fifth Avenue Court in Portland, OR sucks.

May 2004

• Starving myself of nonfiction.
• E3 2004 show breakdown!
• Guerrilla Brand You Influence and Orkut!
• Take notes, improve your brain!

April 2004

• 48 Laws of Power, and bye-bye Tracy.
• Crap! Split motivation!
• Promoted!

March 2004

• Game Developer’s Conference 2004 breakdown, and a little introspection.

November 2003

• I moved to Portland, Oregon!

June 2003

• Just random crap.

May 2003

• Fuck Jesus! Go Socrates!
• Back from Nebraska.

April 2003

• North, to Nebraska!
• Media OVERLOAD!
• Job hunting sucks.
• Let’s see if this even posts.

December 0

• About Jon Jones