The Unseen University

A rambling blog from Jeff Kesselman, 25 year game industry veteran, serial startup CTO and part-time faculty at Northeastern University. One part industry commentary, one part philosophy, and one part irascible old engineer. Shake well and pour.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

How to effectively manage professionals

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Looking around for my next gig has made me really think about how I manage professionals and why. If you haven't seen this TED talk, an...

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

For those with no memory....

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I get really annoyed when people start mouthing myths as facts, particularly when they fly *against* all actual facts. That the current defi...

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Business, F2P, MMORPGs and basic math

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My past two columns have been digging into Zynga numbers from their S1 statement to see what we can learn about the real F2P business. Toda...

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Saturday, July 9, 2011

More Zynga Analysis - Profit margin

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One of the unanswered questions for a long time has been "how much money does Zynga actually make?" They have been happy to relea...

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Real Zynga Numbers

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There has been much speculation about Zynga's numbers over the past few years. They gave out tantalizing tidbits but never enough to re...

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

AARP under right wing attack

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The AARP, traditionally a strong supporter of medicare and social security and a pain in the ass to conservatives wishing to cripple or elim...

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Just because you say it often, doesn't make it true....

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One of the most common of logical fallacies in modern society is the Availability Heuristic. This is the tendency in the human mind to beli...

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