Leadership Putting Stakes in the Ground: Leading Through Broken Systems and Change Leading Through Chaos Every leader eventually faces a season where nothing seems to work, whether you inherited it or walked in by choice. The roadmap is shifting, metrics are slipping, and progress feels like running in sand. In those moments, leadership isn’t about having all the answers. It’s
Leadership Lessons Learned: From IC to First-Time Manager Stepping into your first manager role in game product management is both exciting and daunting. I still remember my first week — I thought I’d be spending my time on strategy and big-picture planning. Instead, I found myself juggling three competing priorities, a last-minute feature change, and a teammate in
Leadership The Ethics of Gacha: How Monetization Choices Shape Player Trust When Japanese mobile games popularized “gacha” mechanics in the early 2000s, few foresaw how randomized reward chests would reshape engagement across virtual worlds. Today, loot boxes—virtual packs of unknown items purchasable with real money—fuel as much as 40% of revenue for some publishers, thriving in both free-to-play mobile
