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"We see our game designs as hypotheses and our playtests as experiments to validate these hypothesis." - Mike Ambinder, Valve

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“There is no such thing as blockchain and non-blockchain games. There are only good games and bad games.” - Milton Friedman


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Worst part of the new @dwarkesh_sp podcast is when @gwern casually drops this Fermat’s Last Theorem

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Where are the think pieces on why Pokemon Pocket should use web3?

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Under no circumstance does this deserve to be four parts. youtube.com/watch?v=B8aaMs…


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In Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company, @NicolaiFoss and I point out that flattening the hierarchy doesn't always translate into greater employee autonomy. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky supports flatness, and also micromanaging! 1/ finance.yahoo.com/news/why-airbn…


I'm annoyed by the lack of a Sensor Tower R package, so I made one. github.com/peterparkerspi…


The re-babtism of the last couple years in the last 48 hours approaching breakneck speed.

Economists are going to have to reckon with the fact that the public would have preferred a slower recovery with much higher unemployment, as long as prices had been stable.



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As a former games company community guy, this scene from Mythic Quest has always cracked me up. The way they depict the CM job has a lot of truth to it. That said, by the time Mythic Quest aired on Apple TV+ in 2020, most games studios had already figured out that the mere…


Reminder to view all this as useless unless benchmarked as a time series (this election? party trend? time-series trend?).

Looks like Gen X delivered the White House to Trump.

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My biggest concerns and biggest hopes for a Trump admin, with varying probabilities of course: Concerns: 1) Mass deportation 2) Tariffs 3) ACA repeal Hopes: 1) NEPA killed, broader deregulation 2) Housing reform 3) More high skilled immigration



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This from @tylercowen on the vibe shift was impressively early, perceptive – and underrated. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…


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Unfortunately, I think people will conclude a strong labor market doesn’t make people happy when the real lesson is an overheated and inflationary path to full employment takes a long time for people to get over.


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Some of y'all need to fill this out

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"Could you point me to some examples of long-run successes that used these strategies?"


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