Articles worth reading

I’ve been collecting interesting articles that I read, which some have gotten shared on EGD News. I’ve decided to make the list of articles public on EGD. I’ll do my best to update this list regularly.

The ones with the stars are my favorites.

⭐️	How to Guarantee a Life of Misery by Charlie Munger
📃	(Building data-driven teams in mobile games 1) How to think about your game
⭐️	10 Learnings from 10 Years × Supercell
📃	10 Years of Excellence - Deconstruction of Supercell — Deconstructor of Fun
📃	11 Lessons from the Success of Disney+ — MatthewBall.vc
📃	4 (actionable) ways to look at your daily active customers
📃	5 Lessons from a “Startup CTO”
📃	50 lessons learned from writing 50 newsletters
📃	A System for Remembering What you Read
📃	Accelerated Learning: Learn Faster and Remember More
📃	Adjacent skills: how to widen your career perspective
📃	An Epic Game of Chicken
📃	BetaDwarf Series A blog — LVP
⭐️	Bezos, Musk & Buffett See The World Differently Because They See Time Differently
📃	Build Better Game Products By Asking Why Not What
⭐️	Craft is Culture
📃	Dark Horse Discord
📃	Don't Kill Time — David Perell
⭐️	Empowerment Loops
📃	Epic Games Primer (Pt I): Epic's Flywheel & Unreal Engine — Matthew Ball
📃	Expression is Compression — David Perell
📃	Fail like a scientist
📃	Four Monetisation Alternatives to Loot Boxes - Department of Play
📃	Games Investing at Atomico
📃	Games Investing at Atomico, Part 2
📃	How Archero Shot to the Top, and How You Can Do Better
📃	How can you find time to design?
📃	How I Choose What To Read — David Perell
📃	How to Be an Angel Investor
⭐️	How to build a breakthrough
📃	How To Get Worse At StarCraft II
📃	How to Grow from Your Pain
📃	How to Identify Underrated Markets
📃	How to write a cold-email
📃	How Zynga executed its stunning turnaround | Mobile Dev Memo
⭐️	Idea Generation
📃	Idle mechanics and monetizing progession in AFK Arena
⭐️	If Sapiens were a blog post
📃	Immediate gratification in RPGs (or why I don’t love the “shard system”)
📃	Inside The Pixar Braintrust
📃	It Takes Two to Make a Game Go Right | League of Gamemakers
📃	IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz
📃	Learn How To Use Data to Build and Grow Hit Games
📃	Learning by Thinking: How Reflection Aids Performance
📃	Let The Others Find You — Michael Ashcroft
📃	Mental Wealth
📃	Mikko Kodisoja leaves Supercell after ten years
📃	Negativity bias: how negative experiences cloud our judgement
📃	Nintendo, Disney, and Cultural Determinism — MatthewBall.vc
📃	Not even wrong: ways to predict tech — Benedict Evans
📃	On Fortnite's Travis Scott Concert — Matthew Ball
📃	Open Equity: Buffer's Equity Formula And Full Individual Breakdown
📃	Pay Analysis Update: Examining Equal Pay at Buffer in 2020
📃	PENS – Game Design Strategies
⭐️	Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 18 Notes Essay
📃	Rapamycin for longevity: opinion article
📃	Readwise, Books, and Spaced Repetition
📃	Researchers and Founders
📃	Retention Framework: Keep Your Players Forever - Department of Play
📃	Returning to Clash of Clans is an Unforgettable Experience
📃	Rewarding Talent Quick Guide | Index Ventures
📃	Rolling Fund FAQ
📃	Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books
📃	Seneca on Gathering Ideas And Combinatorial Creativity
📃	Set Rotations (Pt.1) Magic: The Gathering
📃	Set Rotations (Pt.2) Clash Royale Idea
📃	Shilling
📃	Startup founders to VCs: Level Up!
📃	Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
📃	The 7 RPG player personas
📃	The Angel J-Curve: Super Connectors, Workhorses, Show horses in tech
📃	The Art of Being Alone
📃	The Buffett Formula: Going to Bed Smarter Than When You Woke Up
📃	The early days of scaling $6bn Unity were a “slow-moving panic” | Sifted
📃	The Freud Moment
📃	The Grandmaster Who Got Twitch Hooked on Chess
📃	The Ingredients For Innovation
📃	The Merchandising of Virtue
📃	The Observer Effect – Marc Andreessen
📃	The power of the weekly review
📃	The Principles of Building A Game Economy - Department of Play
📃	The Rise of Product-Led Growth
📃	The Rise of the Solo Capitalists
📃	The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
📃	The Top of My Todo List
📃	The Two Kinds of Moderate
📃	The Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test
📃	The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online — David Perell
📃	The VR winter — Benedict Evans
📃	Thread by @jmikolay: The Big Ideas of the Most Interesting People on Twitter:…
📃	Thread by @Tocelot: Thread on Tencent
📃	Understanding the success of Fortnite: A UX and psychology perspective, part 2
📃	Unity: Analysing the First Game Engine IPO — Master the Meta
📃	What hypercasual mobile game publishers look for in developers
📃	What to do with the old non-payers in your game
📃	What we can learn from... Nordic developers
📃	Who is MrBeast?
📃	Why Everyone Should Write
⭐️	Why Figma Wins - kwokchain
📃	Why Game Development could be Iceland’s next Breakout Industry
📃	Why Nintendo Isn't the Next Disney (And What It Will Be Instead)
📃	Why the first ten minutes are crucial if you want to keep players coming back
⭐️	Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth)
📃	With $5.7 million, One More Game comes out of the shadows

List updated on October 4th 2020.

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