BART(t)

t =2026.0000and counting, in decimal years

Bart Sakwerda, founder of Budots Media. Anthropologist by degree, games producer by training, then drones, 3D scans, language models and games. A life so far, in five functions.

FIG. 1 — TIMELINE

Life in latitude

φ(t) : [2002, now] → [0°, 90°N]

Where the work happened, as degrees north. Katowice, London, then a drop of 41.2° to Cebu. Budots Media starts there in 2014, after Typhoon Haiyan, and runs a London studio from 2016 to 2020.

Thin lines are where the work went: Riyadh, Bangkok, London again.

MOVE ALONG t
FIG. 2 — ADAPTATION CURVE

Jump the next S

fi(t) = Li ⁄ (1 + e−k(t − ti))

Every medium is a logistic curve: slow, steep, flat. Mobile games, video and drones, 3D, generative AI, now games again.

A career is the upper envelope, maxi fi(t). The trick is to start the next curve before the last one flattens.

MOVE ALONG t · DASHED = AFTER NOW
FIG. 3 — PARETO PRINCIPLE

Twenty, eighty

S(p) = p1 − 1/α,  α = log45 ≈ 1.161

Rank the work by what it returned. The top fraction p carries share S(p). One exponent, α = log45, makes 20% give exactly 80%.

Its Gini, 1 ⁄ (2α − 1) ≈ 0.76. The bars are eighteen projects under the same law: one carries most of it.

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FIG. 4 — GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION

Off the mean

φ(z) = e−z²⁄2 ⁄ √(2π)

68.27, 95.45, 99.73: most of everything sits within three sigma. The mean is a statistic, not a target.

Drag the marker. The work worth doing is out in the tail.

DRAG z
FIG. 5 — COMPOUNDING

One percent

1.01365 ≈ 37.78  ·  0.99365 ≈ 0.026

A year of days, each one percent better or one percent worse. On a log scale both are straight lines; after 365 days they are 1,481 times apart.

Twelve years in Cebu is 4,380 of those days.

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