October 2020 | Archive

'Genshin Impact' Is Too Good To Be a ‘Zelda’ Clone

A Columnist Makes Sense of Wall Street Like None Other

A Deep Dive into K-pop

A deep dive into super apps and why they’re booming in the East and not the West

A Quarter Century of Hype - 25 Years of the Gartner Hype Cycle

A YouTuber Hangs His Own Shingle With an Auction Website

Amazon Wants to ‘Win at Games.’ So Why Hasn’t It?

Among Us, a murder mystery set in space, is the latest multimillion dollar craze in video games

Are We Reaching Peak Streaming Subscriptions?

AWS for the rest of us

Battle Royale, Time Machine Management and Why We Should Copy More

Big Hit Goes Public

Billionaire Gaming Brothers Emerge as Tencent’s Biggest Rival

Browsing e-commerce: An untapped $250B+ opportunity

China's 'No.1 livestreaming e-commerce village' sends a million packages a day

Cosmic

Crypto Market Structure 3.0

Danny Meyer’s: ‘the Irrelevancy of Being Right’

Democratizing Access

Early Work

Economics Nobel Goes to Two Masters of Auction Design: Milgrom and Wilson

Ed Smith And The Imagination Machine: The Untold Story Of A Black Video Game Pioneer

Everything crumbles when we lose balance

Founder & CEO David Baszucki (Roblox) Keynote | RDC 2020

Get Wonky

Guerrilla productivity tactics

Haters

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

How Cathie Wood Beat Wall Street By Betting Tesla Is Worth More Than $1 Trillion

How Discord Won

How does Linus make money?

How Dream is beating the YouTube Algorithm (Genius Strategy)

How Etsy stopped showing beauty products to mask buyers

How Flash games shaped the video game industry

How Headspace Is Beating Calm in the Meditation App War

How Much Does Multiplayer Population Matter?

How Playrix' Township Became a Billion Dollar Game

How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better at life.

How Sneaker Bots Snatched Up All the PS5s and 3080s

How the coronavirus, the internet and tons of money unexpectedly fueled sports cards' biggest boom

How to Become the Best in the World at Something

How to Build Curation Businesses

How To Pay Attention. 20 Ways To Win The War Against Seeing

How Travis Scott Defied the Rules of Celebrity to Become King of the Youth

Instagram rolls out fan badges for live videos, expands IGTV ads test

Interview with Rui Ma on Bytedance

Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”

Life is Made of Unfair Coin Flips

Making a New Start in a Business of Their Own

Making is Show Business now

miHoYo's Genshin Impact and its 100 million dollar budget

Minimalism is dead. Meet maximalism.

Modest Proposal – Better, Cheaper, Faster: Why Companies that Reduce Friction Win – [Invest Like the Best, EP.193]

Moving hoop won't let you miss

Negative Social Proof

New Consumer Alert on Yelp Takes Firm Stance Against Racism (Yelp)

Orlando Bravo Rides Software Deals to Heights of Private-Equity Industry

Palantir: The Most Controversial IPO of 2020

Permissionless Identities

Reliance: Gateway of India

Ricky Jay - Sword of Vengeance

Roblox is the next big games advertising platform

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Secure the BaaG

Significantly worse or non-existent

Snowflake S-1 & IPO Teardown

Space Mountain - Monomythical

Tales from the Multiverse

Technically: AWS for the rest of us

The (Not Failing) New York Times

The Auto Chess Conundrum

The Button

The Dark Art of Stealing from Self-Checkouts

The Dark Side of Smart

The end of the American internet

The eShop experiments!

The idea maze

The Inside Story of MacKenzie Scott, the Mysterious 60-Billion-Dollar Woman

The Investing Meta-Game

The Non-Voter

The Observer Effect – Daniel Ek

The physics of fun

The Price of Being Poor | Banking Services

The Problem With Auto-Tune

The Resilience of Costco

The shadow war between Alibaba and Tencent

The Square Opportunity

The Virtual Economy

This Is What It’s Like to Start a Company During Coronavirus

To Anybody Going Through It By Kevin Love

Universal Access and Choice

We Need a New Science of Progress

Welcome to the world of the Glossier mafia

What does a made-for-TikTok brand look like?

What does Segment do?

WHAT HAPPENED TO CROW 64? on Vimeo

What is a second, actually?

What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown

What TikTok Thinks Brands Should—and Shouldn't—Take Away From Ocean Spray's Viral Moment

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

Why So Many Esports Pros Come From South Korea