Nick

Husband and Father. Co-Founder/Co-Owner @NicheWorldsCult. @Twitch Partner. Formerly @MnM_MMO Lead Designer, @NetherRealm, @Tempo_Storm.

[Nick @NickHotS]

Streaming @EQ_Legends Beta https://t.co/uIN64z6LXT

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Nvidia CEO: Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Elon Musk: "The biggest mistake in general that I've made and I'm trying to correct is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and not enough on their personality… It actually matters whether somebody has a good heart. It really does."

[Emmett Voss @Emmett_Voss]

Steve Jobs on why the Beatles were his business model:

In a 60 Minutes interview, Steve Jobs is asked about his approach to business.

His answer? The Beatles.

"My model of business is the Beatles. They were four very talented guys, four guys who kept each other's negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the sum was greater. The total was greater than the sum of the parts."

Steve explains that this is how he sees business:

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people."

He points to what happened when the Beatles split up as evidence:

"When the Beatles were together, they did truly brilliant, innovative work. And when they split up, they did good work, but it was never the same. And I see business that way, too. It's really always a team."

When asked about his biggest strength as a person, Steve's answer reinforces this team-first philosophy:

"I've been very lucky in meeting incredibly talented people and hanging out with them. And so that's been my greatest strength."

But Steve also warns about what can undermine great teams — arrogance:

"All of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you're successful."

When asked if he'd lived through that himself, Steve acknowledges he had. The interviewer points to Apple's initial success and the sobering reality of competitors catching up.

Steve goes further:

"As you may know, I was basically fired from Apple when I was 30 and was invited to come back 12 years later. So that was difficult when it happened, but maybe the best thing that ever happened to me. There wouldn't be a Pixar if that hadn't happened. And so you know, you just move on. Life goes on and you learn from it."

Asked if returning to Apple at 42 felt like sweet vindication, Steve's response reveals his broader outlook:

"No. I thought at that moment what a circle of life. Life is just always mysterious and surprising and you never know what's around the next corner."

[sourcery @sourceryy]

General Catalyst CEO @htaneja: Silicon Valley glorifies the wrong values.

"Kindness and ambition are not at odds with each other."

"In Silicon Valley, we glorify the 'asshole symptom' of founders thinking it's almost a necessary ingredient to succeed."

"I don't think it has to be that way."

[Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao]

"Great teamwork is like a rock tumbler" — Steve Jobs

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

[Nostalgic Gamer @16bitnostalgia]

StarCraft released 28 years ago today!

[Tolkien Universe @tolkienzone]

Aragorn could’ve stopped him. Instead, he lets Frodo go — and backs his choice.

“I would have gone with you to the end…”

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

Steve Jobs:

“It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.”

Simplicity isn’t easy. It’s refined.

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Steve Jobs on who the best managers are:

"They're the great individual contributors who never ever want to be a manager but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them."

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

"Focusing is about saying no."

~ Steve Jobs

[Mastery Mindset @_masterymindset]

Jensen Huang literally explains what a smart person really looks like in this age

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Steve Jobs on how to give feedback to high performers when their work is simply not good enough; giving difficult feedback without causing resentments is a superpower.

[Jake Lucky @JakeSucky]

"You cannot be an exceptional game designer without playing the sh*t out of as much as you can... you learn just as much from a sh*tty game that you do from an amazing game"

Jeff Kaplan gives his advice to aspiring game makers

[Nick @NickHotS]

Going live with another @MnM_MMO Development Stream https://t.co/uIN64z6LXT

[Nick @NickHotS]

Going live with an @MnM_MMO Development Stream, come join! https://t.co/uIN64z6LXT

[Nick @NickHotS]

Going live with an @MnM_MMO Alpha Patch Notes stream! https://t.co/uIN64z6LXT

[Monsters & Memories @MnM_MMO]

The Server Interest Poll is now live!

If you plan on playing Monsters & Memories when it launches this June, please fill it out!

You can find the poll here: https://t.co/bFn7iGmZm0

#MMO #MMORPG #IndieDev #MonstersAndMemories

[Nick @NickHotS]

@DokuGamesLTD Congrats on the launch!