[cableshaft]

He's said some things I really disagree with, especially when he veers away from game design and programming and more into politics or climate change (or even somewhat when it comes to web development), but he still has a lot of interesting thoughts and I think he's well worth listening to on the whole.

I've listened to him far more than probably any other game designer or programmer at this point, probably well over 100 hours worth. Attended a couple of his talks in person at GDC too, many years ago (before Braid was released, he showed a brief demo of it during one of them). Didn't even know who he was, just had interesting sounding game design talks.