Mobile Gaming Is Shrinking in 2026. So Why Is the App Economy Still Growing?
For a long time, the economics of smartphone apps were fairly easy to understand. There were apps. And then there were games,…
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Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto: The Decentralization of Superintelligence
For most of the AI era, the loudest questions have been about intelligence. How smart will AI become? Will it surpass…
The Reputation Afterlife: Why Shameless Confidence Can Outlive Competence
Some people can spend an entire evening replaying a mildly awkward sentence they said seven years ago. They remember the…
Solid-State Batteries Explained: The Battery Revolution That Is Always “A Few Years Away”
For years, solid-state batteries have occupied a very comfortable position in the technology industry. They are close enough to appear…
Infinite vs. Finite Games: Are You Playing Life to Win or to Keep Playing?
It is a surprisingly common experience. We spend years believing that happiness waits behind the next achievement: a promotion, a…
The Seduction of Certainty: Cognitive Closure
Ask five people why a company is failing, and you may receive five different answers. The CEO is incompetent. The…
The Psychology of Doomscrolling: Why Your Brain Can’t Stop Scrolling
“I’ll just check my phone for a minute.” Thirty minutes later, you’ve somehow learned about a volcanic eruption, a celebrity…
The Psychology of Gacha: Why Humans Love Paying for Random Rewards
“It’s just one more pull.” Those five words have probably emptied more wallets than any luxury brand ever could. Of…
Workplace Burnout Is Not Just an Employee Problem. It Is a Business Problem.
In many workplaces, burnout does not officially exist. Employees may become exhausted, cynical, forgetful, emotionally numb, and increasingly unable to…
Gen Z Work Ethic: Why Young Workers Are Rejecting Corporate Culture
I know plenty of younger people who have little interest in the traditional corporate package: commuting every morning, sitting in…
Steam’s $11 Billion 2026 Revenue Reveals the Real Power of Old Games
The videogame industry is currently performing one of its favorite magic tricks: generating more money than ever while repeatedly insisting…
PC Shipments Slip in Q2 2026 as Component Costs Turn Up the Heat
The global PC market lost momentum in the second quarter of 2026, with shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations falling…
The End of Startup Fantasy: Unicorns, Unit Economics, and Other Imaginary Creatures
There was a time, not very long ago, when working at a startup sounded like joining the future before everyone…
Steam Hardware Survey: June 2026 — Windows 11 Surges, AMD Gains on Steam
For years, PC gaming had a kind of comforting inertia to it. Windows 10 was the default, Intel kept a…
Esports Has 400 Million Gen Z Fans and a Business Model That Still Barely Works
A new esports study has arrived with a wonderfully large number attached to it. According to The Esports Generation: Who They…
PC Gaming’s Quiet Rebellion: Direct-to-Consumer Sales Just Crushed the $1 Billion Mark
For years, the standard PC publishing playbook looked almost suspiciously settled. Put your game on a major storefront, accept the…
PC Gaming Spending 2026: Middle Class Is Getting Richer
The games business loves a blockbuster narrative. Every quarter, the spotlight swings back to the same giants: the forever games,…
State of the Global Workplace 2026: The AI Paradox
Here’s the thing about the future of work: we were promised robots would take over the boring stuff so we…
80,000 Tech Layoffs, One Question: Is AI the Cause or the Excuse?
The tech industry’s favorite two-word explanation in 2026 might be “because AI.” Convenient, neat, investor-friendly — and maybe a little…
Steam’s March 2026 Hardware Survey Gets Weird
Steam’s latest Hardware Survey is out, and as usual, it is part useful market snapshot, part statistical fever dream. March…