This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Epic Games announced a powerful new tool which utilizes Unreal to allow for deeply realistic human avatar creation. The … Continue reading Industry News [Week of Feb 8 2021]
Author: mikepappas
CEO/Co-founder of Modulate. In my free time I enjoy food, drink, philosophy, and games. In all things, rapidly learning exactly how much there is left to learn.
The limits of the ‘rational’ founder
Anyone who knows me knows that I have a strong preference for explicit, formal logic over vague intuition or tradition. The mantra is fairly simple. If you can't explain something clearly and logically, you don't truly understand it. It you don't understand it, you can't make accurate predictions about the real world using it. And … Continue reading The limits of the ‘rational’ founder
Industry News [Week of Feb 1 2021]
This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Google Stadia announced a major shift, transitioning from a potential game studio to solely focusing on distributing other games … Continue reading Industry News [Week of Feb 1 2021]
How to write company policies
Imagine a world where companies had no employees, but instead utilized only ideal programmable robots. If you wanted these robots to, say, interact with each other in an optimal way, you would write formal policies - also known as code. That code would have to outline every single possible situation the robots might find themselves … Continue reading How to write company policies
Industry News [January 2021]
This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Microsoft filed a patent outlining a process for using machine learning models to "resurrect" individuals who have died. The … Continue reading Industry News [January 2021]
Uncommon Advice for Aspiring Founders
There’s loads of advice out there for aspiring founders, with much of it repeated ad nauseum. Don’t get distracted. Ship early and often. Read the Hard Thing About Hard Things. You know, the standard stuff. The problem is that reading this advice rarely causes it to truly sink in. There’s a big difference between knowing … Continue reading Uncommon Advice for Aspiring Founders
Industry News [Kicking off 2021]
This is the regular weekly post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Epic Games purchased an old mall to serve as its new headquarters. This is not necessarily huge news, … Continue reading Industry News [Kicking off 2021]
Tasks, Arts, and Values
Bridgewater had a mantra of "skills, abilities, and values" which they used to break down concepts around personal growth. The idea is that skills are easy to acquire and tend to be more constrained - something like "write queries in SQL" or "manage emails through Hubspot." Abilities relate more to your patterns of thought, and … Continue reading Tasks, Arts, and Values
Predictions for 2021 (and 2020 grades)
Last year, I registered a bunch of predictions about the gaming industry to try to test my knowledge of the space. It's been one heck of a year, and certainly COVID-19 impacted both gaming and the wider world in a lot of profound ways. But at the same time, things continued moving in largely the … Continue reading Predictions for 2021 (and 2020 grades)
Industry News [Week of December 14]
This is the regular weekly post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Some exciting moves over the last week regarding improving online toxicity in games. The big three console developers … Continue reading Industry News [Week of December 14]
An Entrepreneur's Journey 