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People are the most engaged in an activity when they feel like they are highly skilled at it, and are using that skill to confront a great challenge.

All human beings have the instinct to learn, discover and experiment. Fun comes when you can provide situations where they can practice the above.

My take on it is that fun comes from interacting with a system with enough depth for interesting stuff to emerge - maybe even things that will surpris

The case board, inspired by HBO show True Detective, originally featured free placement of clues and gated progress until players found a specific ans

"Why make the player watch something when they can do it? If possible, we shouldn't rely on narrative bookending to tell the bulk of the narrative," W

"We have a lot of exposition in this game and we didn't want the player locked into these increasingly repetitive gameplay conversations," Maloney exp

"Wrong answers can be fun as long as you keep the wrong answer interesting enough that there is still some value for the player," Wasselin said. "Lett

The fediverse is boring! The trade-off for the freedom that the fediverse offers comes at the cost of excitement and engagement. Its decentralized nat

As we embrace this offline renaissance, we have an opportunity to redefine the real world and create an era where personal connections thrive, leaving

With nothing more than an idea and a passion for making things happen, I started a new group on meetup.com called We Make the Internet, and began prom

No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few. And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the

Discord's iOS and Android apps are built using React Native [1]. This enables business logic to be shared with the desktop and web clients, as well as

In my experience React Native has definitely "lost its luster", primarily because it occupies a bit of a weird middle ground that nobody wants:1. If y

2,000,000 installs acquires a minimum of $45,000 in fees, even if you don't make any moneyThat's up from $0 USD.

A huge majority of Apple's revenue (from IAP) came from gaming purchases. This would continue to be the case. A gaming app would have ads + options fo

As all of this unfolded, I spoke twice with Substack’s co-founders. And while they asked that those conversations be off the record, my understanding

But until Substack makes it clear that it will take proactive steps to remove hate speech and extremism, the current size of the problem isn’t relevan

OK fine, but aren’t calls to ban Nazis a slippery slope? If Substack caves in here, there will be no end to what people like you call for them to remo

Substack co-founder, Hamish McKenzie, implied that his company’s business model would largely obviate the need for content moderation. “We give commun

The KIM approach starts with an extensive analysis of traffic flows and bottlenecks. At the intersection of Vrijheidslaan – Amsteldijk it turned that

my sense is that people who take a long time to respond to messages, or tend to go into shame spirals about them, often put a lot of pressure on thems

When startups start taking off, the founders usually can't tell what's changed. It's some combination of all the random things they did to make it ta

The shift described represents a fundamental change in the "architecture" of how creative value is captured, moving from individual products to entire

Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra that “Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können” – “One must still have

Claude’s outputs are the product of a form of mimicry, rather than as a report of genuine internal states.Consciousness is about internal states; the

I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate

Inkarnate - Create Fantasy Maps Online

I have never thought so much, existed so much, lived so much, been so much myself, if I may venture to use the phrase, as in the journeys which I have

Lots of consumer platforms — everything from Instagram to Youtube to Twitch — didn’t start out as ways for people to make money. They were initially a

social media will never be the impetus for real social change. He compared Twitter unfavorably to the civil rights movement. The Woolworth’s lunch cou

It's hard to save the world voluntarily when others are destroying it full-time.

What if we re-embraced activism as the intentional acts carried out by each generation to guide us from legacy narratives to new challenger narratives

Tech communities, like any community, are messy. If you’re fortunate to land on one that’s inclusive and welcoming then there are exciting things comi

The club model teaches us something: organizations that endure don’t try to include everyone. They’re clear about their identity, even as that identit

We believe that a healthy ecosystem competes on innovative features, not critical mass. The social web should be centered around people, not platforms

It was only because I showed up and I paid attention," he said. "I looked for places to go. I looked for communities to join. I looked for ways to bec

Unlike a calculator that can solve a limited number of operations, AGI can generalize, learn and comprehend.In their letter to the board, researchers

"According to people familiar with the board's thinking, members had grown so untrusting of Altman that they felt it necessary to double-check nearly

Poetry is the art of proving that a few words are worth more than a thousand pictures.

Dreamer – your home for personal intelligence // flurries of latent creativity

notetaking tools today can surface known unknowns. If I know that I know this thing, but I don't remember it, I can go find it. what it doesn't do

My old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about

“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practice

The hyperreal doesn’t mimic or imitate reality. It replaces reality altogether, making it nearly impossible for us to determine what is real, what isn

I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate

Every phase of life can be shopped for at Costco. Where else can you purchase a wedding ring, a baby carrier, and a casket? It follows your own life s

when i'm tied up in consumption, creation is lost to me; i am no longer the writer, the creative, the poet, the artist, but the eater, the viewer, the

Great user interview questions: 1. What are some alternatives to our product you've used or considered? 2. What's a problem that our product has hel

When pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or celebrated person. You’re going to be an oddity that the most in-the-know pe

It’s possible for other projects to be sexier, more lucrative, and more attention getting, however their purposes are less unique than yours.

I appreciated Nvidia’s founder talking the other week about what it means to work in a zero billion dollar industry. It means really believing in some

The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication

2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.

编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

The collapse of the GDR has many reasons, mostly it ran out of money during the 80s. There have been several reasons for running out of money, e.G. ta

Just want to share these relevant videos from Asianometry:How Semiconductors Ruined East Germanyhttps://youtu.be/cxrkC-pMH_sWhy Europe Lost Semiconduc

For a person such as Hannah, it's far more valuable to get a few thousand people to pay her $4.99 directly than to have a shared model where she merel

Sony earns a cut of the sales of third-party games on PlayStation, which of course it gets to keep with first-party games – meaning that its own games

The economics of a platform holder building games for its own hardware are just different, and the end result is that Sony is one of a very small numb

On its surface, the iPhone didn’t have totally new killer apps when it launched. It had a mail client, a music player, a web browser, YouTube, etc. Th

For a person such as Hannah, it's far more valuable to get a few thousand people to pay her $4.99 directly than to have a shared model where she merel

Adriene, who is just one person, is beating the largest Yoga Magazine in the US on every single metric. She is more popular, she has a much better mod

Mind you, there are limited models where a shared package does work. For instance, Motor Trend On Demand is a shared platform where all of Motor Trend

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov

Fly.io has always run on its own hardware. There are fun, technical, “control your own destiny” reasons to rack hardware instead of layering on top of

I know the founders of an AI chip company that taped out and got working chips on their first go. They got their chip done, it’s pretty solid. Chip ha

A good mental model is that Qwik applications at any point of their lifecycle can be serialized and moved to a different VM instance (server to browse

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ARKit persists anchors and mapping data based on your location. Practically speaking, this means that if you use an app to anchor some paintings to yo

I worked on Google Maps monetization, and then on Maps itself.Monetization was a dismal failure. I don't know how well they're doing now, but Maps was

From 2012, to 2016, to 2020, google bled an incredible amount of key talentI think that was kinda known in the valley, but not sure any media really c

Google has turned into the "new IBM" for years now. I've worked with Google engineers and managers from different "generations". It's shocking how the

At CodeSandbox we use Firecracker for hosting development environments, and I agree with the points. Though I don't think that means you should not us

Here are the two most significant features Firecracker lacks:Dynamic memory management - Firecracker's RAM footprint starts low, but once a workload i

Just want to share these relevant videos from Asianometry:How Semiconductors Ruined East Germanyhttps://youtu.be/cxrkC-pMH_sWhy Europe Lost Semiconduc

Writing a good Claude.md

The collapse of the GDR has many reasons, mostly it ran out of money during the 80s. There have been several reasons for running out of money, e.G. ta