Career

The Three Sides Of “Making Something” and “Making It”

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Earlier this week, Serdar explored the difference between Making Something and Making It. The two aren’t necessarily connected, and an attempt to Make It can mean doing things that go against your talent, skills, ethics, and good taste. Doing something well and getting recognized aren’t always the same thing, but seeking the recognition can distort your efforts further.

In fact, I wanted to take up the torch (and perhaps the pitchfork) and cover something related to this that faces us in our careers and our lives: Making It and Making Something are not just different, they also represent different skillets – Three of them.

Yes. Three. Let me go on.

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Sony Doing Better – Playstation Isn’t

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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/197376/Sonys_PlayStation_business_still_looking_worse_for_wear.php

I doubt they’re giving up, but it’s also clear they put a lot into the PS4 and need to make it pay off.  The Playstation Division is basically operating at a loss.

Keep it in mind if you work in gaming or at Sony – or want to.

– Steven

It’s The Living Room

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So as I noted earlier, with the Chromecast and Google’s Hangout box, it’s obvious Google is making a play for the Living Room. This is not surprising, since Microsoft is also making a play for the living room (and the office equivalent) with the XBox One to the point they kinda forgot the whole gaming thing until the criticisms came in.

The living room appears to be the next big device battlefield. Well, the Smart Watch as well, but even after some discussions I’m still not sold it’ll be a battlefield as much as the site of a Pyrrhic non-Victory.

I actually think the living is a valid area for tech companies to target, and wanted to explore that a bit.

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