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 and trophies are my favorites.

Articles from Q4 / 2020.

📃	$340 million in an era of diminishing returns
🏆	100 True Fans - Li Jin
🏆	20 Startup Books To Read in 2021
📃	2020 is already a record year for games investment
📃	2020 is YouTube Gaming's biggest year, ever: 100B watch time hours
📃	A chat with Julia DeWahl, ex Chief of Staff at Opendoor
📃	Advice for the First-time Startup Founder — How Drop's CEO Learned Everything the Hard Way
📃	Angel eye
🏆	Apple Arcade, one year on: no killer games, can't compete with free
📃	Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It
🏆	Breaking into VC, by Pietro Invernizzi
📃	Bret Victor, beast of burden
📃	Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books
📃	Coloring Outside the Lines
📃	Constructing a "Tower of Want"
📃	Covid Kills Inertia: Homeownership Edition
📃	Curiosity and consistency: thoughts on growing a newsletter
📃	Deconstructing Fall Guys — How to Supercharge Organic Installs
📃	Developer talent representation evolving alongside the industry
📃	Emotional agility: how to build resilience in times of crisis
📃	Esports in India: Signal vs Noise
📃	Extract or Die
📃	Gamify the Learning Process
📃	Getting from Seed to Series A
📃	Global Game Revenues Up an Extra $15 Billion This Year as Engagement Skyrockets | Newzoo
📃	Good Enough Is Just Fine
📃	Good times aren't always good - 5 reasons NOT to overfund your startup
📃	How Genshin Impact is Changing F2P as we know It
🏆	How I made $210,822 selling a pdf and a video on the internet
🏆	How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably
📃	How to create story-driven ads that drive massive performance – with Gonzalo Fasanella, Chief Marketing Officer at Tactile Games
📃	How To Say No
📃	How to take notes while reading a book
📃	How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and Writing
🏆	How to use consistency to compound your creative output
📃	How VCs Negotiate: 8 Skills Top Founders Master for Startup Fundraising
📃	How Venture Capital Works. Part 4: Anatomy of a VC
📃	Including inclusion (and why it’s key to growing your business).
🏆	Learning From Quibi
📃	Learnings from a decade of company building
📃	LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
📃	M&A in the Games Industry 2020
📃	Making is Show Business now
🏆	Metacore brand name and identity design
📃	New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators
📃	Not even wrong: ways to predict tech
📃	Personal values: how knowing yourself can guide your actions
📃	Plus Minus Next journaling
📃	Power of storytelling in blockbuster casual games?
📃	Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016
📃	Reflections on Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address
📃	Rise & Fall Guys: How to Save a Hit
📃	Roblox & Fortnite overtake candy & books in kids' spending charts
📃	Scaling the startup mountain
📃	Scout Programmes
📃	Shopify, SPACs and Status, Part Two: with Jim O'Shaughnessy
🏆	Six Lessons from Six Months at Shopify
📃	Sweden Gaming Stocks Crowned Lockdown Winners, With More to Come
📃	The argument for simpler games, in an industry obsessed with complexity
📃	The Chief of Staff role in Silicon Valley
📃	The future of the CFA Institute: An interview with Margaret Franklin, CFA
📃	The Hidden Patterns of Startup Failure
📃	The ladders of wealth creation: a step-by-step roadmap to building wealth
📃	The Man With Six SPACs
🏆	The Observer Effect – Daniel Ek
📃	The Observer Effect – Tobi Lütke
📃	The Profile Dossier: Malcolm Gladwell, The Thinker Selling Good Ideas
📃	The pseudoscience of a 12 month payback on CAC
📃	The Shift in Lily’s Garden Marketing Strategy
📃	The Startup Trap Quibi Fell Into (and I Almost Did Too)
📃	The State of Women Investors Today — Under the Hood
📃	The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Ricardo Semler (#229)
📃	The Value of Investing in Female Founders
🏆	This Is Why Our Leaders Should Be Stoic
📃	Thread by @paigefinnn on Thread Reader App
📃	Transitions
📃	Under the Hood: Tilting Point’s Approach to Game Evaluation
📃	VCs should play bridge
📃	Venture Unlocked Episode 1: Elizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund
📃	Video gaming can benefit mental health, find Oxford academics
📃	Voices Around The Table
📃	What arcades can teach us about monetizing engagement
🏆	What it feels like when you've found product-market fit
📃	What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
📃	Why Content is King
📃	Why more European VC firms should launch scout programmes
📃	Why Read? Advice From Harold Bloom
📃	Why We're Bootstrapping Readwise
📃	Will Mobile Games Become Even More Popular in 2021?
📃	Would breaking up 'big tech' work? What would?

Articles from Q3 / 2020.

⭐️	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 December 28th 2020.

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