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.
lindylearn.ioPeter Hagen
To start with, leaders must not be afraid of their teams making mistakes. Copying from another comment: "Netflix's culture demands very strong leadership and probably works only when the company is small enough. From CEO and down, leaders in every level need to know how to set context for their teams, give enough freedom to their teams, while makin... See more
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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 sh... See more
Coleman McCormick • On Validating Product Ideas
If there's a middle way, a way for premium games to somehow find a paying audience on devices such as phones and tablets, then the Game Pass style subscription to a game library is probably the best bet.
So How Can You Survive?
Simple. You provide something nobody else can ever provide. Something cool and distinctive that people will rather pay money for your game than get someone else's for free.
Consider me. I'm an OK programmer. I'm not good at art and visual stuff, and I haven't been since I was a kid.
But I can write well. I make good settings a... See more
Simple. You provide something nobody else can ever provide. Something cool and distinctive that people will rather pay money for your game than get someone else's for free.
Consider me. I'm an OK programmer. I'm not good at art and visual stuff, and I haven't been since I was a kid.
But I can write well. I make good settings a... See more
Jeff Vogel • I Am the Cheapest Bastard In Indie Games
"If only we had more { money | time | authority | technology }, we could get everything done."
But there's a paradox here: it's never actually been true.
All great achievements happen while yoked by constraints. Even the biggest budget, high-stakes government programs (the Manhattan Project, Apollo Program) were heavily constrained.
But there's a paradox here: it's never actually been true.
All great achievements happen while yoked by constraints. Even the biggest budget, high-stakes government programs (the Manhattan Project, Apollo Program) were heavily constrained.
Coleman McCormick • Embrace Constraints
weirdly my main reaction is gratitude to the OpenAI founders for actually creating a governance structure that committed them to sacrifice profits if the mission required it. no idea if that's what happened here, but at least we know the commitment had teeth. Show more
the fact that Sam had no equity was a red flag whether or not you like him — the governance structure of OpenAI has always been fishy
kepanotwitter.comThat 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