Peter Hagen

That split between the big audience on Facebook and the influential audience on Twitter was instantly obvious to anyone in any newsroom who ever cared to look. Sicha is right to note that Twitter never sent any amount of meaningful traffic to any website — it was Facebook traffic that warped most digital media executives into futile aspirations of... See more

During this Thailand walk, our nightly conversation topics were:

• How do you stay motivated?


• What do you escape or resist?


• What does home mean to you?


• Shocking solutions to public problems.


• Tell us about a failure.


• Frameworks to make big decisions.


• What is your health regime?


• How do you use lists?


• What do you believe that your heroes do

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Instead of spending time planning and concocting roadmaps, replace that activity by talking to current or potential customers on how their lives can be improved, and letting that determine your next feature. Injecting the actual customer who uses the software into the development process is key to creating value. The more proxies you have between... See more

"We have a lot of exposition in this game and we didn't want the player locked into these increasingly repetitive gameplay conversations," Maloney explained. "We needed more varied ways to relay exposition; also, it's fun to grill and interrogate people."

In the finished version, Saga sits at her profiling table and receives something akin to... See more

Challengers like Meta’s Threads don’t seem like drop-in replacements for Twitter — especially since Threads head Adam Mosseri keeps saying his team will not “encourage” news on the platform. That makes Threads a comparatively tamer experience than the chaos that drove Twitter to its height. “Threads is to Twitter as methadone is to heroin,” says... See more

I don't have any data to back this up, but I suspect that most companies don't need more than 20 developers, with some needing 20 to 50 developers, and only a handful needing between 50 and 100 developers. Once you cross the 100 developer mark, I think you need to start thinking about whether the scope of your product(s) isn't getting out of hand... See more

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 you truly need all the advantages of native performance and integration, just go native. Yes, you'll need to "write it twice", but you'll find that it's actually easier to hire top notch iOS or Android... See more