A very nice description of the goal of marrying skill, demand, and passion:
If what you want to do and what you do well overlap, you still need to monetize it.
If what you do well and what you can get paid to do overlap, you still need to make sure the work is desired.
If what you want to do and what you can get paid to do overlap, you still need to do it better than your competition.
The picture gives me a sense of the youthful inspiration and commotion much like the articles does. A great picture and a great article. Anybody in their 40s founding startups these days or have we just accepted our waterboarding?
The most perplexing thing for me is that Stephen Wolfram's kind of hyperbolic self promotion is something I normally see coming from companies that are trying to mask their lack of success. I actually think that Mathematica is an interesting and educational tool to use. Too bad it is a failure at affordability. Wolfram Alpha is not much to boast about in my opinion, but certainly an "answer engine" is a great goal and I would love to see more innovation here.
The title should be "Controlling a Katamari with a Giant Trackball". I hope Namco immediately hires her and releases a new version of Katamari Damacy bundled with it.
Yeah, I think this is a lame point. Covert Action was a collection of mini games inside a larger game and it wasn't hard to follow at all. It just wasn't a great game because some of the mini games were not really that exciting.
We have an overload of advice from a small number of experienced game developers who have been saying lots of really obvious things for years. The consumer should have fun and not the designer or programmer. Duh!
He states that he doesn't actually know how B&H is doing financially so there isn't any proof that they are a successful business other than his description of personal experience. He states that they are not open for business as much as they could be which I would find annoying as a customer. The site shuts down that often? You gotta be kidding me.
Any business trying to compete on thin profit margins and/or is too dependent on loans to keep their business running is certainly not going to thrive in this economy. Unfortunately, I don't think customer service will be the deciding factor for many companies right now.
But yeah, as far as personal experience I avoided Circuit City too as the only experiences I had were so negative. I wouldn't say other stores like Best Buy have any more than a tolerable customer experience on average.
If what you want to do and what you do well overlap, you still need to monetize it. If what you do well and what you can get paid to do overlap, you still need to make sure the work is desired. If what you want to do and what you can get paid to do overlap, you still need to do it better than your competition.