The sign of a company in absolute decline is when the worst possible place to get info about it, is their official announcement. Whoever wrote the announcement went out of their way to obfuscate the crux of the announcement (compare the clear heading on hackernews to their own heading)
If your (well paid) job is to write and communicate clearly, and for a major announcement you come up with this...not much left to say.
Yeah the whole positive spin about doubling down on VR was completely ridiculous. The only thing left making money now is the store. Which means they'll just have to hope some others will make stuff that's worth selling because they've also shut all their own studios.
I don't think Walter is implying anything about how common or uncommon this is. His core insight seems fairly objective and plausible to me: "...your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old". I.e. if you do end up being lucky and wise to do something as a profession closely related to what you *loved* doing when you were ~11 , because you end up spending time doing what you love (and equally importantly not spend that time doing something that sucks up energy) you increase your chances of being happier.
Kudos on the beautifully and thoughtfully designed landing page - which is becoming a rarity these days. Most product landing page highlight adjectives and abstract value propositions with links to join waiting lists for 'priority' access - providing little insight into the value proposition of the product itself. Not to mention the gratuitous visual effects.
So its a pleasure to see a thoughtfully done product landing page (which strongly signals that the same care will have gone into the product). The page is performant, no gratuitous visual effects. It clearly highlights the core product value propositions in the context of product visuals. Addresses key hesitations clearly and upfront (e.g. no cc required, pricing information), and a simple, obvious call to action.
Hopefully more people follow this template than the slop generated by auto generators.
I don’t like how the page disables pulldown-reload on mobile. I didn’t even think that was possible. Guess it makes sense when your page is a game of Tetris, but why here?! Sometimes I just like to overscroll a little…
Clean, simple, information is where you expect it to be, links go to predictable places, exist in predictable places. Craft and care taken with little things are important, and this was well done.
"It has become customary to conceptualize the living cell as an intricate piece of machinery, different to a man-made machine only in terms of its superior complexity ......"
" ..... However, the recent introduction of novel experimental techniques capable of tracking individual molecules within cells in real time is leading to the rapid accumulation of data that are inconsistent with an engineering view of the cell ...... which emphasizes the dynamic, self-organizing nature of its constitution, the fluidity and plasticity of its components, and the stochasticity and non-linearity of its underlying processes."
At the scale of a cell, magnetic field becomes like water - a real tangible thing that dominates physics. We have a bunch of formulas that explain the magnetic field, but we lack intuitive understanding that's gained with practice. This is what I think makes a cell so incomprehensible to us: things we can create are so large that the magnetic field is negligible, and our engineered systems behave like a bunch of gears.
thanks. It started as a proof of concept for a custom reactivity engine (based on signals and tagged template literals). But while at it I realised I needed something quick and easy for my needs.
I already have a prototype for a self-hosted photogallery that integrates this editor (something like https://immich.app to give you an idea). But it's still too early to share
It definitely is. Having the best product and being able to maintain that best-in-class product status over time through a firm's 'internal capabilities' is very much a moat and a strong one at that. A moat is the business strategy sense is anything that enables a firm to maintain competitive advantage. Having the best product in a category, and being able to maintain that over releases is a strong competitive advantage (especially when there is high willingness to pay or price is a strong competitive dimension compared to the value created).
That's not a real moat except in one sense: if it is really expensive to get to the level to compete, and you know a competitive market would bring margins near zero, then no competitor may actually step up. We see this in off-patent drugs, where it may have 200X margins but no competitor will go through the FDA manufacturing reapproval process because they won't actually get those margins if they begin competing on price, and then the sunk cost of getting to the competitive level isn't worth anything for them.
I think OpenAI's big moats are in userbase feedback and just proprietary trade knowledge after they stopped sharing model details. They may have made some exclusive data source deals with book/textbook and other publishers, though it isn't clear a license is actually needed for that until things work through the courts.
No - it may work for some employees but it's not far from what will make people who prefer remotely want to suddenly return to office.
More importantly, return to office, as the end goal isn't a good end-goal. Sure it can work reasonably well when everyone is in the office, but the pandemic 'experiment' has clearly shown us that remote, hybrid are also workable models. Each model: all on-site, hybrid, flexible have their pros and cons and the outstanding organizations of the future will be the ones that can create an environment where people who thrive in each model and co-work.
The right end-goals should be around more around the lines of productivity, teams hitting/exceeding their goals consistently, employee retention, employee happiness among other things.
If your (well paid) job is to write and communicate clearly, and for a major announcement you come up with this...not much left to say.
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