Essays
My essays focus on business, strategy and decision making in the videogame and entertainment industries. Through these essays, I want to help videogame companies harness the power of business and strategy.
- From Glorious Purpose to Just Cause
- The 4 areas of leadership responsibility
- The FIRM Framework for indie studio management
- My Annual Review 2025
- My favorite things of 2025
- Crunch and other systems archetypes
- Why your studio needs a vision (even if you think it doesn’t)
- Finding co-founder alignment
- Why “unique” is better than “best”
- Annual Review 2024
- My favorite things of 2024
- Supercharge your studio ambitions
- The 5-step plan for better core values
- A brief guide to better feedback
- Introducing The LONG GAME Performance Report
- The “One Thing” Team Building Exercise
- How to define your target audience
- 2024 Halftime Recap
- How I help my clients get better results with less hassle 🤫
- Introducing: The Long Game Operating System
- Bi-Weekly Bits becomes The Long Game
- Survive to ’25 (and beyond)
- Paint Me A Picture: Setting Medium Term Goals To Guide Your Studio
- The Triforce of Business Management
- A Step-by-Step Guide to the Perfect Quarterly Offsite
- How To Find Your Hedgehog Concept
- How to “Survive To ’25”
- Mastering the Three Arenas
- The Best Links of 2023
- Annual Review 2023
- My Favorite Things of 2023
- A Step-By-Step Guide to the Perfect Annual Meeting
- Breaking The Silence
- Required Reading as Onboarding
- Solve Problems Like An Engineer
- Forget Unicorns. Think Like A Camel.
- 30 Questions To Build A Better Game Company
- The Perfect Management Meeting (Includes Pizza)
- The Best Business Videos in the GDC Vault
- The Missing Leadership Element (is Self-Awareness)
- A Videogame MBA In 12 Books
- Why You Should Find A Sparring Partner
- The Secret to Better 1-on-1s
- Best Links of 2022
- Annual Review 2022
- My Favorite Things Of 2022
- On Conscious Leadership
- Developing Self-Awareness
- Why Self-Awareness Is Crucial
- “Do we really need a strategy?”
- Better Decisions With A Decision Journal
- Inertia and entropy in business
- Strategy is more than a plan
- When founders get stuck
- Solving issues, the easy way
- Create clarity by defining your core processes
- Improving Company Focus with Rocks
- How to delegate responsibly
- Delegate or Die – Where to Start
- Five Common Strategy Mistakes
- Navigating the Founder’s Dilemma
- Core Value Examples for Videogame Companies
- Why And How To Use A Company Scorecard
- Annual Review 2021
- My favorite things of 2021
- Mental Model: Product/Distribution
- Why you shouldn’t hire with your gut
- Beyond the business model: Porter’s activity system map
- How To Have Better Meetings
- Mission, Vision, and Values – Part 2: How to make ’em stick
- Mission, Vision and Values – Part 1: Why you need them, and how to define them
- Getting The Right People On The Bus
- Why Creative Enterprises Need Strategy Too
- Annual Review 2020
- My Favorite Things of 2020
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