My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Within months it became a global phenomenon, with celebrities such as Trevor Noah joining the bandwagon.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
In two months, that number had grown to 300,000, after people began sharing their scores on social media.
COMMENTS ABOUT NEW YORK TIMES TILES GAME SOFTWARE
“The NYT took one nice and simple thing that a lot of people really liked, a dumb bit of fun in our exhaustingly dark times, and implied that they’ll stick it behind a paywall.”Īfter creating Wordle to play with his girlfriend Palak Shah, software engineer Josh Wardle released it to the public in October. “I have never seen Twitter as immediately mad as it is about the NYT Wordle buyout,” one user tweeted. That wording led some social media users to suggest the media company would soon allow only subscribers access. The New York Times Co’s acquisition of Wordle has created uproar on social media, with fans expressing fears that the popular online word game, which is currently free to play, might be put behind a paywall.Īnnouncing on Monday that it had bought Wordle for an undisclosed price in the low seven figures, the Times said the game would remain free for existing and new players “at the time.”
0 kommentar(er)
