Thanks Gavin! Yeah they have been super supportive and great so far too. Really welcoming.

Thanks Lewis!!

thanks Carolyn!

aw thanks Nav!!

I'm also really happy to be working with @brisunipress.bsky.social press, who have put out a bunch of really excellent works on digital technology, platforms, and critical sociology in recent years.

It's the book I've always wanted to write: a focused look at the digital games industry on the intersection of the process of platformization and political economy. The driving question at its core is what happens when the growth offered (often promised) by platformization stops?

some fast&excellent analysis from @superjoost.bsky.social yesterday also looked at the way that Scopely used their warchest to drastically increase the revenue of Monopoly Go!. Not many ownership groups have 1 trillion in the fund to dump money into marketing superjoost.substack.com/p/electronic...

after our analysis we argued that the Saudi PIF is interested in income diversification AND sportswashing / branding / soft power.

I think the norm is 3-4 months of broken but reasonable sleep. around 4-5 months they become torture specialists. We listened to... some very random podcasts at 3 in the morning

you will but you have to bare knuckle these 3-5 months!!! let us know if you need some food ok