Earlier this month, I learned about The Roottrees are Dead, a game that was recently released on Steam. The game was pitched to me as being ‘heavily inspired’ by Lucas Pope’s genius deduction game, Return of the Obra Dinn, one of my favorite all-time gaming experiences, and it immediately shot to the top my backlog [ ]
Amidst a fractious global landscape where instability, limited or world wars and widespread geopolitical political uncertainty cloud any outlook of the upcoming decade(s), it could perhaps be easy to overlook the Latin American region coloring a same as it ever was cynicism that anyone focused on the region certainly feels. However, the region increasingly [ ]
On the eve of July 4th, entertainment / metaverse / spatial internet strategist Matt Ball dropped his latest essay on a uniquely American phenomenon: theatrical moviegoing and its secular decline. Matt Ball is one of the more ingenious commentators on the state of the entertainment industry, most famously as an early adopter of the modern [ ]
Om Malik had a thought-provoking piece today, citing another piece by a journalist named CJ Chilvers, on the importance of maintaining a personal page in the age of infinitely indexed, accessible information: When giving the reasons for why I redesigned my home page (and reorganized) my website, I wrote: “The rise of generative AI means that there [ ]
One of my early strains of thought on this blog, dating back to 2009 (!), was musings around the decline of academic interest in the liberal arts in favor of more vocationally-oriented training. Far and away the most popular degrees on campus are found in the Business School (Finance, Management), as well as other professionally-oriented [ ]
Given the amount of time spent indoors or in relative seclusion, over the past few days I’ve been reflecting on the past year has been the time I’ve spent reading, and the books that have provided companionship over the course of the year. These books do not reflect the totality of my reading for the [ ]
No, this isn’t another post coming out against the Simon Schuster and Penguin Random House mega-consolidation. Over the past 48 hours, we’ve seen interest groups ranging from authors to agents to booksellers all coming out against the merger, citing its to-come impact on author/agent leverage in negotiation, diversity (and breadth) of opinions being published, [ ]
As a follow-up to my previous post on the Value of Publishing, I wanted to type up some quick follow-on thoughts on potential disruptions in publishing, and current barriers-to-entry for would-be disrupters . While my last post focused on book publishing, I’m going to focus my thinking on another form of publishing: video game publishing. While [ ]
Disruption is a word thrown around business school campuses with abandon the ability to disintermediate established business models in favor of a less costly or more efficient new model, oftentimes leveraging technology in place of more-costly physical or human infrastructure (considering I’m ¼ through business school, you be the judge of whether I’ve wasted [ ]
I’ve been meaning to redesign this blog for several months. The blog design has remained unchanged since I relaunched it in early 2018. The initial aesthetic and design was somewhat arbitrarily chosen I knew I wanted something clean, minimalist, and designed for longform reading, but I can’t say that I gave much more thought [ ]