Peter Hagen
@peter
Curious about better reading, incentives / game design, bootstrapping, and too much more. Hopeful that Sublime will be a better Twitter for ideas.
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This is not a place I ever expected to be. True for so much of my life.
Walking thoughts - inhab.it
I really like the approach of Netflix of 10 years ago when it was still small. They hired mature people so they could get rid of processes. Indeed, they actually tried to de-process everything. As a result, things just happened. Non-event was often mentioned and expected in Netflix at that time. Case in point, active-active regions just happened in... See more
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My whole life, I have had to change my values. I was a complete pacifist and now I understand that sometimes you need armies. I used to despise religion and I really came to respect the Catholic nuns I met during my time in Africa. The work they were doing and their reasons for doing it were amazing. I didn’t believe in giving aid through... See more
Shanna Carpenter • Q&A with Hans Rosling (Part 2): How to change Fidel Castro’s mind … and everybody else’s | TED Blog
"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
In the finished version, Saga sits at her profiling table and receives something akin to... See more
Fulfilling fantasies and building investment: The narrative design of Alan Wake 2
Internally at OpenAI, insiders say that disagreements had emerged over the speed at which Altman was pushing for commercialization and company growth, with Sutskever arguing to slow things down. Sources told reporter Kara Swisher that OpenAI's Dev Day event hosted November 6, with Sam front and center in a keynote pushing consumer-like products was... See more
Benj Edwards • Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
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 from our conversations — based on material they had shared with me in writing — was that in the future they would regard explicitly Nazi and pro-Holocaust material to be a violation of their existing... See more
Casey Newton • Why Platformer Is Leaving Substack
The communication department doing its thing.
The communication department doing its thing.
Yes, it's been Apple's modus operandi with the App Store from the start: trick consumers into thinking the App Store being a monopoly is the only thing that can protect them against malware, illicit and questionable app content, pirated software, scams, and fraud.
Most consumers understand those concepts and fear those things. Most understand... See more
Most consumers understand those concepts and fear those things. Most understand... See more