Peter Hagen
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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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In the EU, Apple is making a number of changes to iOS to comply with the DMA. For developers, those changes include new options for distributing apps. The coming changes to iOS in the EU include:
Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Apple is allowing alternative app stores, but still in control.
In an interview with Forbes in January, D’Angelo argued that one of OpenAI’s strengths was its capped-profit business structure and nonprofit control. “There’s no outcome where this organization is one of the big five technology companies,” D’Angelo said. “This is something that’s fundamentally different, and my hope is that we can do a lot more... See more
These Are The People That Fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Some of the best work I've ever been a part of happened when we chose particular things we weren't going to do — when we intentionally blocked specific paths for ourselves for some cost/benefit/time balance. Boundaries allow us to focus on fewer possibilities and give greater useful, serious attention to fewer options. We can strongly consider 10... See more
Coleman McCormick • Embrace Constraints
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.
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 helped you solve recently?
-I have all these ideas to write but I want them in one place to draft this... See more
To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
please take a moment to read Jeff Atwood's and Joel Spolsky's introductions of Stack Overflow.3 Did you notice what I did? Both describe Stack Overflow as the solution to a very specific problem: programming knowledge locked up in minds and forums whence it's difficult to retrieve. They also explain how they intend to solve the problem including... See more
Jon Ericson • Stack Overflow's CEO doesn't understand Stack Overflow
Gaming is a hits-driven business, where the biggest productions cost hundreds of millions of dollars and need to find a way to recoup their sizable investments. As a result, the companies behind these massive games look for as many ways as possible to mitigate risk, either by copying popular trends (like the battle royale craze of the late 2010s)... See more
Jason Schreier • The Secret Behind the Success of ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’
“Right now, people [say] ‘you have this research lab, you have this API [software], you have the partnership with Microsoft, you have this ChatGPT thing, now there is a GPT store.’ But those aren’t really our products,” Altman said. “Those are channels into our one single product, which is intelligence, magic intelligence in the sky. I think that’s... See more