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Dapper Collectives is a new business unit empowered to further the Brud mission of creating community-owned media and collectively-built worlds.

One way to spot people who are good at solving poorly defined problems is to look for people who feel good about their lives; “how do I live a life I like” is a humdinger of a poorly defined problem.

This might seem like a good idea on the surface, but it’s not a very sustainable dynamic. For one, it favors investors not gamers. Breeding isn’t a very fun game, but it’s where most of the revenue (and incentive) for Axie players comes from. For another, it builds the in-game economy on a very shaky foundation. Once the flow of new players stops, ... See more

What has become more and more clear to the non-influencer social media user is that things aren’t what they seemed. Influencers aren’t out to “influence” their “followers” in a positive way — they’re looking to “influence” them to purchase material goods from brands that are willing to pay them enough to advertise. Influencers are more concerned wi... See more

Product development is a challenging exercise in constraint optimization and managing tradeoffs. There’s a common misconception that requirements should be made by product managers or designers in isolation– that good design is the result of someone walking alone into a room, thinking really hard, and walking out with a product requirements documen... See more

A public library today has information to improve people’s lives. We are an enabler; we are a connector.

It’s not money that determines our happiness, but the presence of some combination of these three attributes: