Good ideas often happen in many places at once. I’m sure many smart words have been written about why and how. But here’s one versions of that story. I recently read about Netflix putting together a show — the premise is Dorothy from Oz meets Alice from Wonderland. …

10 real reasons that unreal clothes are a thing — In case you need to get caught up, here are three crucial things to know about digital stuff. Augmented Reality is real. The kids are digitally editing, enriching, and extending themselves every minute of every day using apps on their phones and a shared sense of creative self-representation. Virtual influencers…

Veteran game developer and the creative mind behind CryptoKitties explains why Apple Arcade is great for players, but he still has questions about the business model. — This September, Apple released Arcade, its subscription gaming service, with the release of the new mobile OS update iOS 13. I never update quickly. Typically, it takes me probably six months. I’ve never liked upgrading tech. It creates a surface area for things to go wrong. …

As many of you know, the CryptoKitties mobile experience hasn’t arrived yet. As we continue to work with Apple to figure out how to bring the best CryptoKitties experience possible to the iOS ecosystem, we haven’t forgotten about all the other mobile users in the world. …

TL;DR I want you to foster/create a cat that will digitally live forever. Scroll to the second last paragraph for more details. So we’re putting cats on the blockchain. If you have to have ask why, I’m probably not going to satiate you with any answer I can muster. None-the-less here’s two thoughts: Blockchains are going to…

First, the world brought you demotivators. Then, it brought you f**kscapes.

I believe that emojis are slowly — but surely — changing the world. Actually, not all that slowly. In fact, by any measure I can think of, a purple vegetable meaning eggplant one day, and becoming a global symbol for a penis the next, is a wildfire cultural phenomenon. …

Last month, me and the fam spent a month in Santiago, Chile. I worked. We played. It was amazing and we didn’t really want to come back. Here’s some things I noticed. It’s worth pointing out that my reference point is Vancouver. In the last couple years I’ve been to…

What heiroglyphics, emoji, and stickers have in common. —