Emilie Kormienko

So how does this collapse? Well as more people enter the game, the demand for sneakers will continue to grow. That growth can sustain the current prices for a while, they’ve actually trended upwards since I started playing. But they can’t go on forever since there’s almost nothing in the game that’s ROI negative.

A failure to make it clear to a new user means a failure to complete the task you want them to complete.

EZRA KLEIN: [C. Thi Nguyen] believes games are a unique kind of not just art form, but just form, medium, because what they manipulate is our agency. You can think of visual arts, like painting, as manipulating what we see. You could think of music as manipulating what we hear. But games— games manipulate what we do, how we do it, why we do it. And

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And here is the paradoxical secret: connection and isolation are bound to each other. I am confident that without my experience as a lonely closeted teenager at a boys’ boarding school, I wouldn’t be as passionate about deep connection today. We simply cannot know connection without also experiencing disconnection. There is nothing wrong with you... See more

When we know, deep in our bones, that we are enough exactly as we are, and that we’ll be okay no matter what the world throws at us, we lay the strongest foundation possible for the journey ahead.

Option #4: The all-in-one approach: A brave but altogether more fruitful approach to product design is to combine all of the above and ask people to sign up whilst they submit information to personalise the experience and get shown what to do and where to go once they’re through the onboarding process.

Specifically, the franchise model allows businesses to monetize their brand equity and create new, high margin licensing products that provides leverage on its existing fixed costs. In the process, certain cost centers (like marketing spend) turn into revenue drivers (through trademark licensing). At this point, the business crosses the chasm of... See more