Our brains are great for coming up with ideas and problem solving, but not for long term retention of information and memories. This is something Albus Dumbledore (The headmaster of Hogwarts during Harry Potter’s tenure at the school) knew all too well. …

This story is from 2005. I was less than a year out of college and working at Hewlett-Packard in India on the HP OpenView team. Among other things, I was assigned as the junior engineer to work on Application Response Measurement (ARM) standard based offerings from OpenView. We had a…

What is Angel Investing? Angel Investing is the act of putting money into earliest investment rounds of a private business with the goal of getting back more money than you put in — much more than you can return in a safer, more established investment vehicle. The businesses angel invest in are typically less…

One last recruiting story for 2021. We did do a lot of hiring in 2016, and this time we talk about a New College Graduate Hire. The name of the candidate was Adam Snyder and he had a degree from Northwestern University in Radio/TV/Film and Computer Science, with a minor…

Another week, another recruiting story. The year is still 2016, and we were still in the process of building out the team at Electronic Arts. We were interviewing this candidate named Matt Kellner for a Software Engineering position on the Marketplace team. Matt was working with Amazon, where he worked…

The year was 2016, and I had recently joined Electronic Arts as the Director of Engineering to build the Virtual Economy Platform from scratch. Not only did we have to build the platform we also had the challenge of building the team from scratch. When I first started the three…

I have been fortunate enough to make my career in a field that I am passionate about. I am an avid gamer with a passion for solving complex problems and delivering results, and now I get to do this for a living. There are millions of players around the world…

Over the weekend I spent time setting up our gym in the garage. The most grueling task was dissembling, moving and reassembling our treadmill downstairs into the garage. This got me thinking and inspired me to write this post about “The Content Treadmill”. So what is the content treadmill? It…

In this post we will talk about how adoption and evolution of the internet transformed digital distribution and ownership of games. Downloadable Content (DLC) Players who loved a particular game wanted more of it. They craved more content, were willing to pay for it and did not want to wait till the next…