First principles. Creators from every medium doing the work that only they can do.
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Rakuro Hizakura spent years hunting kusoge, broken games nobody else wanted to touch. When he entered Shangri-La Frontier, 30 million players were already there. None of them had found what he found.
Eric Barone spent four and a half years building Stardew Valley alone. Publishers offered teams. Fans offered help. Every offer assumed the problem was speed.
Build a Rocket Boy raised £233M with Rockstar's DNA. MindsEye launched in June 2025 with a Metacritic score of 37. The story isn't about money or talent.
Ten hours of Coachella 2026 and one artist was in every set. His name wasn't on the lineup.
Writing a pop-punk song to understand yourself is an unusually honest personality test.
The ad copywriter who made three games and stopped. Why that restraint matters.
In 2009, Sony's head of worldwide studios played Demon's Souls for two hours and called it unbelievably bad. FromSoftware published it without them. Then they built a genre.
NieR: Automata's creator was a self-proclaimed loser who hid from his publisher, designed a game that lies to you for 20 hours and then asks you to sacrifice everything for a stranger. It sold nine million copies.
Product management isn't dead but the old way of doing it is over. A rallying cry for PMs building in the middle of creativity and chaos.
YouTuber Kize Bae gave herself 30 days to learn drums from scratch. What she discovered and what I found when I picked up the sticks myself — is more useful than any PM framework.