State of Video Gaming 2025. From Matthew Ball.
WSJ on parenting: “The key is to focus on quality time, not quantity. Instead of spending whole afternoons in the company of children while also cleaning the house and fielding emails, Tsabary said that setting aside just 10-15 minutes a day for an engaged interaction, such as going for a walk or throwing a ball, can make a big difference. “When we connect with our kids one-on-one, we are sending them the message that they are interesting and worthy of commanding our full attention,” echoed Dr. Becky Kennedy.”
Maharishi-Pandya: “Never skip the extensive contemplation phase. Show all work and thinking. Embrace uncertainty and revision. Use natural, conversational internal monologue. Don’t force conclusions. Persist through multiple attempts. Break down complex thoughts. Revise freely and feel free to backtrack.” [via Arnold Kling]
FT: “Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon has warned private companies to take “great caution” before deciding to go public, adding that the depth of capital in private markets has removed the need for many to list at all. “Today you can get capital privately, at scale . . . you can also get liquidity in the private markets. So the reasons to go public, when you really reach an incredible scale, are getting pushed out,” said Solomon at the Cisco AI Summit in Palo Alto. “If you are running a company that’s working and it’s growing, if you take it public, it will force you to change the way to run it and you really should do that with great caution,” he added.”
NYTimes: “Even though the aggregate of attention is very valuable in market terms, each one of our individual attention to second a second is like pennies, fractions. Yeah, not even pennies. Not even pennies, fractions of pennies. And that was exactly what it was like with labor. When Marxists would say labor is a source of all value. They were right in the aggregate, take away all the workers. And the Industrial Revolution doesn’t happen. But to the individual worker in the sweatshop, the little slice of labor that you’re producing is both everything you have as a person and worth nothing in the market, almost nothing. And I think we have the same thing with attention, where it’s like it’s really valuable, pooled and aggregated the most valuable. Each individual part of it that we contribute is essentially worthless. It’s pennies. And then subjectively, to us, it’s all we have. I think attention is now to politics, what people think money is to politics, I totally agree. Certainly at the high levels, right. There are places where money is very powerful, but it’s usually where people are not looking. Money is very powerful when there’s not much attention. But Donald Trump doesn’t control Republican primaries with money, controls them with attention.”
