Peter Hagen

if nothing else, video game development is a series of concessions and tough decisions. There's that perfect game you WANT to make... and then there's the game you CAN make. Sometimes, if the gods smile on you, those two are very close.

what OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind have all tried to do is raise billions & tap vast GPU resources of tech giants without having the resulting tech de facto controlled by them. I'm arguing the OpenAI fracas show that might be impossible.

Part of Google's perceived aura (IMHO) when they started was that they seemed to be like the nebulous group of pre-Web Internet-savvy techies. Which were a smart group, tending towards altruistic and egalitarian, and wanting to bring Internet goodness to people, and onboard people into Internet culture. What seemed like one sign of this was times... See more

The MVP is not an excuse to deliver a poor customer experience by cutting corners in the face of date pressures, which is what most orgs used them as. It is there to answer specific questions about whether another iteration is needed, and if so, what it could be? This question is rarely asked let alone answered, resulting in Melissa Perri’s feature... See more

"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. "Letting the player experiment is a great way to give agency, and allowing the player to find the right answer by themselves gives them a sense of ownership over the solution. It also creates more... See more

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 musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred.

An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of companies.

And it doesn’t matter how many students are in the class, the teacher

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