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#78 Oct 30, 2020 💡 The last Xbox – I'm sitting here with the new Xbox Series X in front of me. A chiseled hunk of black basalt. An objec
#77 Oct 23, 2020 💡 Attention, distraction and Quibi – It will go down in history as one of the great failures of the digital age. Almost $2 billion spent o
#76 Oct 16, 2020 💡 Prideful sharing – It's been a crazy week and I'm genuinely sorry to say that I don't have a column this week.I love wri
#75 Oct 9, 2020 💡 Industry bit rot – Today some beloved colleagues at GameSpot were made redundant. Billion dollar companies buying and se
#74 Oct 2, 2020 💡 Arhythmia – You may have noticed I've lacked consistency here for a while.I'd been hoping to go twice a week, but
#73 Sep 22, 2020 💡 It's all about the Game Pass – If Microsoft wanted to win a news cycle, announcing its US$7.5B buyout of ZeniMax Media around 10 hou
#72 Sep 18, 2020 💡 Cat photos matter – We lost a beloved cat this week. She was happy and healthy until she was suddenly leaving us and minu
#71 Sep 15, 2020 💡 Xbox Series N(adella) – Xbox pricing was announced last week, with the drop on not one but two 'next gen' models set to arriv
#70 Sep 10, 2020 💡 Dark and full of terrors – I love the sea. But I hate being in the sea. I love to watch its power, enjoying the rhythmic chaos f
#69 Sep 2, 2020 💡 The value of uninformed consent – I really hate it when things always come back to Facebook. But here we are, with the social network t
#68 Aug 28, 2020 💡 Digital culture is culture – There's soooo much happening right now that shows the blurring of the lines between what happens onli
#67 Aug 20, 2020 💡 The End Of Infinite – Endings give us space. Endings make room for beginnings.Endings matter.But the standard mode now of s
#66 Aug 18, 2020 💡 High stakes lawsuits – "Well that escalated quickly..." feels like 2020 in a single cliche.Picking up where we left off last
#65 Aug 14, 2020 💡 Apps, clouds and platform control – It's easy to forget that the iPhone did not launch with an App Store. As the history is told, Steve J
#64 Aug 4, 2020 💡 More than a business story – When I got my first gig at Internet.au magazine (no website, our boss didn't like the idea of us havi
#63 Jul 30, 2020 💡 Digital scarcity – The digital domain has caused all sorts of problems for commercial enterprise because of the ease wit
#62 Jul 23, 2020 💡 Some friction is good for you – Too much friction is a hassle.Too much friction slows us down.Too much friction means we give up.Too
