Peter Hagen

By becoming a PlayStation exclusive, FFXVI more or less ends up having the economic advantages of a first-party title. Sony has most likely waived most, if not all, of its platform fee for the game, so every unit sold is more profitable for Square Enix; it has also almost certainly absorbed some of the marketing costs for the game by rolling it... See more

The OpenAI chief executive officer planned to spin up an AI-focused chip company that could produce semiconductors that compete against those from Nvidia Corp., which currently dominates the market for artificial intelligence tasks. Altman’s chip venture is not yet formed and the talks with investors are in the early stages, said the people, who... See more

"According to people familiar with the board's thinking, members had grown so untrusting of Altman that they felt it necessary to double-check nearly everything he told them," the WSJ report said. The sources said it wasn't a single incident that led to the firing, "but a consistent, slow erosion of trust over time that made them increasingly... 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

What you "need" to do is a dangerous trigger word. Almost always the perceived need is based on a particular understanding of trade-offs that could be misguided. One engineer's need to recover some technical debt (while noble, of course) might be the opposite for CEO, who might be seeing a bigger picture existential need to the business. A thing is... See more

From 2012, to 2016, to 2020, google bled an incredible amount of key talent

I think that was kinda known in the valley, but not sure any media really covered it

Honestly a lot of the blame goes to Larry Page for turning the company toward G+, pushing top people toward Gundotra, the product failing quite badly, and Larry stepping back as CEO

My view of... See more

One of my contrarian views is that I’m a big defender of gut-based decision making. Not in an “always trust your gut” kind of way, but I don’t think listening to your intuition means you’re “ignoring the data.” You’re just using data that can’t be articulated. It’s hard to get intuitive, experiential out of your head and into someone else’s. You... See more

This is not a place I ever expected to be. True for so much of my life.