King Kong director Peter Jackson famously produced a series of over 50 video diaries while filming the 2005 remake, the first of which was published well over a year before the movie hit theaters. Almost a decade later, he would do the same thing for The Hobbit , uploading behind-the-scenes highlights from the set directly to YouTube. The only... See more
āJournalists are in general a bunch of insecure overachievers, so being in one āroomā with your āpeersā giving you constant feedback and information creates a truly awful petri dish in which the most terrible forms of groupthink thrive,ā says Polgreen. āIt can be very hard to resist for reporters, which makes it tough for editors to reorient their... See more
On its surface, the iPhone didnāt have totally new killer apps when it launched. It had a mail client, a music player, a web browser, YouTube, etc. The multitouch paradigm didnāt substantively transform what you could do with those apps; it was important because it made those apps possible on the tiny display. The first iPhone was important not... See more
Simple. You provide something nobody else can ever provide. Something cool and distinctive that people will rather pay money for your game than get someone else's for free.
Consider me. I'm an OK programmer. I'm not good at art and visual stuff, and I haven't been since I was a kid.
But I can write well. I make good settings... See more
We send people away for years, tell them exactly what to do every day and they get to make exacrly one choice every day: do you obey or not? That's the only choice you get to make. Then, after 3, 5, 10 years, we send them out into society and tell them, "Make better choices." But we haven't prepared them for that at all. We have given them almost... See more