Many concepts that sound good on paper are infeasible to implement, or simply don’t produce the expected results. It’s frustrating when that happens, of course, but the pace of experimentation and learning at a startup is unparalleled. I think this is an especially important form of rigor for theorycels like me. Building product forces a different ... See more

eflecting on these points, you might say the process feels messy and unpredictable. Indeed, it should. The birth of something great is never serene. It’s a series of cracks and contortions in the rock, each break revealing a new gleam beneath the surface. Over time, what was once ambiguous becomes inevitable—what was once a mad experiment looks, in... See more

“[Y]ou can dislike parts of a game. You can hate on a game entirely,” Pagliarulo wrote several messages later. “But don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is (unless it’s somehow documented and verified), or how it got to be that way (good or bad). Chances are, unless you’ve made a game yourself, you don’t know who made cer... See more