The Reinventions of Final Fantasy • in|retrospect
My in-game counter says it took me about 47 hours to finish my first play-through of Final Fantasy XVI. It's been 6 years since the last mainline Final| in|retrospect
My in-game counter says it took me about 47 hours to finish my first play-through of Final Fantasy XVI. It's been 6 years since the last mainline Final| in|retrospect
Games| in|retrospect
Pixelachen. The tender ache that follows the closing cutscene of a game you’ve loved.| in|retrospect
The aphorism is “strong opinions, weakly held.” Now, I’ve always been skeptical of what, on its face, is…| <span class='cs-logo__former'>in</span>|<span class='cs-logo__latter'>retrosp...
We made a trip to the local IKEA this past weekend. The furniture store of college dorm rooms, IKEA was a staple of my 20s as I moved between apartments and| in|retrospect
Are there any real alternatives to agile development in commercial software?| in|retrospect
It was around 5 pm on a lazy weekday afternoon. I still remember peering out into the mostly…| <span class='cs-logo__former'>in</span>|<span class='cs-logo__latter'>retrosp...
There’s a particular subgenre of tech industry book that piques my interest. Chaos Monkeys, Uncanny Valley, Extremely Hardcore—they…| <span class='cs-logo__former'>in</span>|<span class='cs-logo__latter'>retrosp...
Product launch aside, the other part of the article that piqued my interest was how it weaved in a profile of Airbnb's founder-CEO, Brian Chesky, and how he| in|retrospect
We, as humans, are obsessed with ranking things.| in|retrospect
Never underestimate our ability to normalize the extraordinary. Less than two years ago, I witnessed the rapid adoption…| <span class='cs-logo__former'>in</span>|<span class='cs-logo__latter'>retrosp...
While it was a relatively short-lived phenomenon, the push for the democratization of codingI suppose the updated parallel in 2025 is vibe coding, where you| in|retrospect
It was raining again. The young student peered out the window, the skies overcast with gray clouds tracing…| <span class='cs-logo__former'>in</span>|<span class='cs-logo__latter'>retrosp...
For the past few years, the fear around this wave of LLM-driven AI has been the eventual development of AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, that would| in|retrospect
I guess there’s real demand for easily visible family calendars. The NY Times recently featured an article on…| <span class='cs-logo__former'>in</span>|<span class='cs-logo__latter'>retrosp...
This is the philosophy of intentional, or strategic, leniency. It turns out that if you deal in absolutes and ultimatums, if issues are collapsed into binary,| in|retrospect
Prevailing wisdom suggests that within the ranks of management, despite their proximity on most career ladders, the roles of a manager and a director are| in|retrospect
When the hype cycle around AI was picking up a few years back, there was this pervasive fear that we were on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence| in|retrospect
