Year: 2021

One of the hardest things:

“If all you do is make a point, you’ve handed them a story about yourself. When you make a change, you’ve helped them embrace a new story about themselves.”

From https://t.co/AM7HvWHasm

Why Apple cannot make cheap accessories. https://t.co/PGCBHLviLN

Remember this fascinating limit of the human brain when you try to prioritize product features, or brand characteristics, or strategic imperatives, or whatever else your business and your people depend on. https://t.co/waV0KAqINc

1/ If @OpenAI Codex and its future clones will be able to allow non-developers to create POCs from plain English descriptions, it will be a huge victory for ideas, and for all the people that didn’t or don’t have the chance to learn how to code.

2/ And I am not sure the current order will stay the same going forward.

One of the best books I ever read is “This is Marketing” (Seth Godin). On the last page, there’s a list of questions that act as a north star when you build or market products. I check them often so, to find them faster, I have them on my website: https://t.co/vGKbbEF19R https://t.co/5FO12KvIKb

This last bit is the most interesting. To retain attention, I suspect gaming companies have to release new hypercasual games very often. But development is costly. It might be the first genre to benefit from an #AI like the just-released @openai Codex. https://t.co/g9jVhWIi3q

4/ A report FULL of exceptionally interesting insights from one of my favourite companies ever: @appannie.

Hypercasual games continue to grow in popularity but their profitability is quite small (and probably their life span very short).

https://t.co/CqhFbLKvnh https://t.co/tcZbamerzV

3/ A report FULL of exceptionally interesting insights from one of my favourite companies ever: @appannie.

Hypercasual games are the most downloaded but the most lucrative genre is a tiny niche: RPGs.

https://t.co/CqhFbLKvnh https://t.co/oH1jz87ibq

2/ A report FULL of exceptionally interesting insights from one of my favourite companies ever: @appannie.

Fascinating differences between gender game preferences and the exceptional success of Roblox among female players. (red boxes are mine)

https://t.co/CqhFbLKvnh https://t.co/QSorCyJjMj