Alfredo Saad-Filho & Jack Taggart | Defense Dividends

The interpenetration of private finance and the military

phenomenalworld.org

TWIG #391: Xbox's 4,800 Cuts, Apex Predator Playbook, and the 6% Problem Killing New Games

YouTube video by Deconstructor of Fun

youtube.com

My Software North Star

Loris Cro's Blog

kristoff.it

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations

davidoks.blog

After “Worldifying” Everything, What’s Next for Live-Service Games?

Because not all theme parks run like Disney and Universal.

medium.com

The Metaverse Fever Dream

1. Meta You probably know the gist. Predictions and dire warnings of a future lived in an immersive virtual world had been around for decades before Neal Stephenson solidified the concept in his 1992 ...

pxlnv.com

The Inference Shift | Stratechery by Ben Thompson

YouTube video by Stratechery

youtube.com

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are lever...

ben-evans.com

archive.today

Disappearing Gulf Capital: The Iran War Risk Wall Street Isn’t Watching | Council on Foreign Relations

Some of the largest U.S. technology companies and investment managers are vulnerable if Middle Eastern sovereign capital shifts more towards domestic priorities in response to the Iran war, which coul...

cfr.org

We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant

YouTube video by Unsupervised Learning

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Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms

AI is about to see your company as a series of components to be optimized

danielmiessler.com

AI's Economics Don't Make Sense

If you liked this piece, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, includ...

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The Sharma memo

Xbox's new CEO gets to work

superjoost.substack.com

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Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Steam Year In Review 2025

Our annual platform summary for developers

steamcommunity.com

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy | TechCrunch

Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is easy  -- ...

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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that p...

lalitm.com

oecd.org

What Actually Makes You Senior

The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry

terriblesoftware.org

The Only Thing That Matters On Your Roadmap Is the Next Step | ProdPad

Step-based planning gives product leaders a healthier way to build roadmaps by focusing on the next meaningful step instead of pretending to know the entire plan. Learn how this mindset reduces overwh...

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Game Pass, or fail

Xbox's $30 solution to a billion-dollar problem

superjoost.substack.com

There are no pure cultures – we have always been global | Aeon Essays

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history

aeon.co

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An Abominable Creature

Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5 Trillion Healthcare System

healthisotherpeople.substack.com

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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2025 was the year Xbox died

The Xbox brand effectively died this year. But can it be resurrected as a PC platform?

engadget.com

I Do Not Think, Therefore I Am

The Algorithm, the Relentless God of the Transformation of Life Into Data and Data Into Profit

savageminds.substack.com