Columns and blog posts, written over the years on a variety of websites.
Nobody likes games where the rules are rigged in favor of one player. That’s almost certainly one reason why investors don’t seem very keen to put their money behind Zynga, the once high-flying video-game maker founded by Mark Pincus, who brought FarmVille to the Facebook masses. Liquidating the $2 billion company and returning the proceeds to shareholders is probably the best option at this point. Cox: Time has come for Zynga to sell the farmville You […]
Santi is back! And in good form too.
Björn Jeffery, co-founder of Toca Boca children’s apps, is evangelical about the benefits of unstructured play. “It’s being treated as something that is not very important,” he tells Quartz. “It’s the thing you do to relax between Mandarin immersion classes.” Is there a digital solution to unstructured, creativity-enhancing play?
Some of my dad’s photographs on LensCulture. (via David Jeffery – Rural-street in B&W | LensCulture)
For the past five years, I have written a short summary of what I’ve done during the year. This one was very close to not be written. It takes a long time, and to be honest this year has been rough in many ways. 2015 is not going to my history books as particularly worthwhile. And as always, the most interesting stories are the ones I can’t write about. That’s corporate life I’m afraid. But […]
One can also look at Amazon in this light – like Sears Roebuck before it, Amazon lets anyone anywhere buy things that you could previously only get in a big city. But that is not at all the same as letting people shop the way you do in a big city. Buying is not shopping. The challenge is that most of America doesn’t live in New York – so how can one take shopping, rather than […]
If one had to pick the date on or about which men’s clothing changed, October, 2010, could be a sensible choice. That’s when The Hairpin published an article, by Mary H. K. Choi, called “All Dudes Learned How to Dress and It Sucks.” “There must have been some clandestine colloquium workshop situation where all the dudes in all the land shucked to skivvies and got sized for their perfect pair of Uniqlo jeans and nobody […]
The App and Play stores have turned out to be exceptionally poor places to run a software product business for most developers. They’re great distribution channels for service makers, like Facebook or Lyft or Basecamp, but they’re terrible places to try to make a living (or better) selling software products. Harsh words from the Basecamp people. But not untrue. Don’t base your business on a paid app — Medium
Arora encouraged him to spend aggressively to solve the problem, including a $350 million acquisition. That helped Snapdeal draw 10 million customers for its digital wallet within 33 days of launch, though it remains in third place in India, behind Amazon and rival Flipkart. “When your largest shareholder and key strategic partner says ‘Go for it,’ that gives you a great sense of confidence,” Bahl said. “I don’t think this would’ve been possible without the […]
Yes, it’s possible that even in a different system, Karl still might not have lived a day longer, but had he had been with me, where I wanted him, I wouldn’t be sitting here, living with the nearly incapacitating anguish of a question that has no answer. This is absolutely heartbreaking and difficult to read, and at the same time incredibly important to not ignore. A Baby Dies at Day Care, and a Mother Asks […]
