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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it’s difficult to stop Castro when he begins talking — almost as difficult as it is to stop me. But then I said, “Can I tell you a story?” And as a Cuban, he immediately said, “Yes.”
So, I told him that I had watched a documentary on him, and he asked me more questions to verify that I remembered it all correctly and it was all true — and I passed. ... See more
So, I told him that I had watched a documentary on him, and he asked me more questions to verify that I remembered it all correctly and it was all true — and I passed. ... See more
Shanna Carpenter • Q&A with Hans Rosling (Part 2): How to change Fidel Castro’s mind … and everybody else’s | TED Blog
But with all the recent blather of technology companies changing the world, I’ve become a bit more jaded of late on the impact of business given folks are so quick and cavalier in how they define changing the world. Atlas reaffirmed for me the power of and the good that businesses can do in a community if it’s there long enough. There are several p... See more
After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (and I was completely clueless)
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 article.
3. What is the job that our product does for you?
4. What's a feature that keeps you usin... See more
Did... did Apple just introduce the equivalent of Unity's runtime install fee... but for all iOS app developers in the EU?!
Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
The economics of a platform holder building games for its own hardware are just different, and the end result is that Sony is one of a very small number of companies that can afford to spend these kinds of budgets on development while still sticking to a relatively old-fashioned pay-to-play business model. Neither game features any kind of battle p... See more
Rob Fahey • Redaction errors reveal the economics of exclusivity | Opinion
Just want to share these relevant videos from Asianometry:
How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
https://youtu.be/cxrkC-pMH_s
Why Europe Lost Semiconductors
https://youtu.be/5ZdmS-EAbHo
Europe’s Lost Decades in Semiconductors
https://youtu.be/PpSdytrNEBg
It's great to get chip manufacturing back to Germany after all the struggles, even if it's not cuttin... See more
How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
https://youtu.be/cxrkC-pMH_s
Why Europe Lost Semiconductors
https://youtu.be/5ZdmS-EAbHo
Europe’s Lost Decades in Semiconductors
https://youtu.be/PpSdytrNEBg
It's great to get chip manufacturing back to Germany after all the struggles, even if it's not cuttin... See more
Article
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