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A co-founder at Justin.tv, Vogt was later described as the "creative genius" at the start-up, who "hero-coded" the company out of problems and designed the camera systems necessary for live streaming.[8] As reported in Fortune, according to Justin.tv co-founder Justin Kan, Vogt would "just, like, lock himself in a room for three days and code away... See more

Kyle Vogt

from Sega and Nintendo’s PC and CD-ROM games,

Jens Andersen • The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination

Designing for the Developers

Karri Saarinen sequoiacap.com

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Craig Mod • Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

A stunning ignorance of mass tastes was a common problem in high technology. When a brilliant engineer dreamed up a product, he tended to build the sort of things only a brilliant engineer would appreciate. Typically, he overestimated the average person’s willingness to learn how to use some new machine and underestimated the cost of making the

Michael Lewis • The New New Thing

In truth, the game is pathetic. It’s two-dimensional—no smell, no touch, no taste, no feel. It’s tiny and grainy, with a world model as simplistic as Genesis.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

We built an iOS concept and tested it with some folks (huuuge thanks to @brettbejcek for leading these onboardings and the user research around this). While it was an amazing demo, it was clear that getting people to change their behavior for this was not great. https://t.co/Ney35rCBNO

Stammy x.com

Before going to see him, I did eighty hours of homework. I asked all the virtual reality hotshots I knew to share their thoughts and questions about this Disney project. As a result, when I finally met Jon, he was wowed by how prepared I was. (It’s easy to look smart when you’re parroting smart people.) Then, at the end of the lunch, I made “the