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Marathon's next major update runs a few months further away, permanent PvE in hand, as Bungie ditch their "strict seasonal schedule"
Marathon's next major update, dubbed Symbiosis and delivering permanent PvE, has been delayed to December with Bungie ditching their "strict seasonal schedule".

To Create a New Category, Name the New Game.
Brilliant strategic narratives evangelize a new discipline for winning—while positioning the old one as obsolete. In the 1990s, I ran the New York City Marathon three times.

The Art Of Marathon
A look at some of the work that went into one of the coolest-looking video games in recent memory

Bungie overhauls Marathon from original extraction shooter vision
Bungie says addressing player feedback requires the team to 'change both what we're building and how we deliver it,' as it prepares to focus on PVE more.

Strategies for Long Projects - Ben Brostoff
I’m in the middle of three multi-month to a year projects right now: Writing a book Running a marathon Building a ...

Super pumped: the battle for Uber
"A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley. In the tradition of Brad Stone's Everything Store and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood, award-winning investigative reporter Mike Isaac's Super Pumped delivers a gripping account of Uber's rapid rise, its pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers, the company's toxic internal culture and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history"--

We Found The Radical Solution That Could End Corporate Monopolies
Proof of Work - The Marshmallow Test got a response. Now the real test begins.
After my critique of Bluesky's 2026 Report resonated across the Atmosphere, the company's new interim CEO reached out. We talked about what went wrong, what collaboration should look like, and why private data is the next test of whether the words match the work.

Proof of Work - The Marshmallow Test got a response. Now the real test begins.
After my critique of Bluesky's 2026 Report resonated across the Atmosphere, the company's new interim CEO reached out. We talked about what went wrong, what collaboration should look like, and why private data is the next test of whether the words match the work.


Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
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Preparing for the Creator Economy Apocalypse (with Chris Gethard)

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Changing the Way We Work
WSJ. Magazine’s 2015 Technology Innovator and co-founder and CEO of Slack believes in the power of play. After a year and a half of runaway user growth, his app is changing the way we work.

Platformonomics - Dining Preferences of the Cloud and Open Source: Who Eats Who?
TL;DR: If the cloud didn’t eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects? Marc Andresseesssen’s “software is eating the world” has given rise to an entire technolog…
