Just digging through my personal library of game studies research and figured I’d share some books that got me started as an academic. Here’s an early gem from a rockstar humanist professor at the time: “Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture” by Alexander Galloway. Intellectual

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Narrative is a very VC-oriented, B2B, or trend-driven buzzword. Often, narrative isn’t the most fundamental logic within first principles. Whether you’re working on infrastructure or applications, your description and positioning should be as precise as possible. If you aim to

Prediction markets were never meant to predict the future, they were meant to alter it.

additional data points: - the current Alliance cohort has the highest number of indian startups ever - 25% - ballpark 1/3 of the last ~100 cold dms i received were from indian founders

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Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

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I asked ChatGPT to graph how hard parenting would be over the next 20 years, given my starting state of newborn, 3yo, 5yo. Very impressed with its reasoning and speed. Happy it never gets harder than now. Scared of my life in 10 years.

20 lessons for founders by Imran Khan from Alliance at Breakpoint: 1. Start with a small problem or design space 2. Avoid consensus ideas 3. Build for a small group of users 4. Validate your thesis with an MVP 5. Launch your ideas within 30 days 6. Do things that don't scale

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Had a little over 75 in-person meetings last week in Singapore. Crypto, in its current stage, rhymes equal parts with an MLM industry and the future of the web. Here is the distilled, TL:DR version of what I learned in Singapore, mixed with photos as is tradition. 1. Why

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