Gacha games are the dark side of capitalism. Instead of making a game people are willing to pay for or spend so much time in that they don’t mind seeing ads, your job is to make the game so frustrating they decide to pay to win but not so frustrating that they quit playing.

People are growing increasingly distrustful of any content they consume and spend energy worrying about its provenance versus actually reading, watching or listening to the media.

I wonder how social media will survive the distrust that will come from the flood of generative AI.

People question whether a song from Drake is actually by AI. VCs question if you wrote the email because of word choice. I got accused of using AI to write a description of a talk

I love this approach because it emphasizes listening to the people who are closedt to the work as opposed to managers making decisions from a high altitude with less context.

One thing I like about working at Meta is that strategy being bottoms up is a key part of the culture and ingrained in the language. Managers don’t “run” or “lead” teams, they “support” them.

My job isn’t to tell PMs what to do. It’s to give them feedback on their plans.

My Twitter feed is all about Drake’s diss track and my Threads feed is all memes. There is a world news event that happened in the Middle East and I don’t see terrible takes by uninformed randos in my feed.

If I want to be informed, I have to go to a news site. As it should be.

DJ Khaled realizing his entire roster of features are now beefing with each other.

Somebody wake him up.

What’s the difference between working in big tech versus a startup?

If you think student loan forgiveness is paying for votes then what do you think tax cuts are? 🤔