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We believe that Web 3 games will win over Web 2 and Web 2.5 games because they leverage community ownership, real economic value, and native composability to drive greater player adoption & retention. We believe that the Web 2.5 approach to building P2E ecosystems is not enough to prevent the value extraction of communities. This is because there w... See more

kx • Play to earn economies as base layer protocols for games

many practice groups continue to maintain expertise-based approaches to running their affairs when their marketplace is probably closer to the efficiency stage.

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

Continue: If a green zone (“on track”) goal isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Update: Modify a yellow zone (“needs attention”) key result or objective to respond to changes in the workflow or external environment. What could be done differently to get the goal on track? Does it need a revised time line? Do we back-burner other initiatives to free up reso

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

At the macro level, the single word for horizontal progress is globalization—taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere. China is the paradigmatic example of

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

Playbooks are rapidly becoming historical artifacts. They only work if a market is consistent.

Integrating AI into our workflows has created a "meta-optimization problem." When everyone suddenly gets 10x more powerful, the hard part isn't doing things—deciding what's worth doing in the first place.

All other variables equal, knowing and utilizing the metagame gives the player the maximum chance to win the game.In the bull-market-thrill-crypto video game, there’s a metagame too. Knowing and understanding the metagame is not required to score some wins, but pretty important

Cobie • Trading the metagame

Pre-internet games were sold in stores and teams that had worked on it moved on. With the Internet came “connected games” that allowed ongoing updates. Latest trend: games adding many meta layers which are aimed to keep users engaged often with no real connection to the game itself (live concerts in games, a card collection or virtual pet layer whi... See more

NFX • What VCs Don't See: Why We're Bullish on Gaming Startups

Instead of manipulating “users,” the best products of today are putting technology back in control of people’s hands by using game play principles, not game mechanics. Understanding the difference between these two things, and how they apply to products outside of the gaming category, will dictate the difference between the winners and losers of pr... See more