The most powerful predictors of relationship quality are the characteristics of the relationship itself — the life dynamic you build with your person. This is according to an analysis of 11,196 couples gleaned from 43 studies.
The problem here — in what I call the Social Token Paradox — is that with this mental model, tokenized communities are incentivized to uphold exclusivity. Let’s work backwards: if you want your community to be valuable, you need your community’s token to go up in price. This makes sense, sure. But to make the token go up in price, you have two... See more
A hunter-gatherer spent most of his day looking for game. Prolonged low-intensity work follow by a burst of intense chasing and hunting. Whereas a farmer puts in continuous work. Ideally, you want a balance of both to accumulate resources and provide protection in case the hunt fails. That said, “We have taken the farming style too far”
Gaming as a business model: includes direct content licenses with game developers, blanket licenses with user-generated content (UGC) platforms, Exclusive partnership deals with UGC platforms, Live, in-game events, In-game digital goods and microtransactions, Performances and syncs at competitive esports events
product development is not about "adding features"—but distilling a product to a simple marketable sentence. Adding features more often impairs growth.
No matter how good you get at reframing, the single most important rule about managing the interaction is this: You can’t move the conversation in a more positive direction until the other person feels heard and understood. And they won’t feel heard and understood until you’ve listened. When the other person becomes highly emotional, listen and... See more