Watch Dogs launches this week, the “hack the whole city” game after a year of delays. The graphics-downgrade controversy (E3 demo vs. reality) has spawned a thousand comparison GIFs. As someone who now demos software for a living: I have never once demoed the real product. The demo is the dream; production is the compromise. Ubisoft just did it with more marketing budget.
The Apple-Beats deal is basically confirmed ($3B). Meanwhile at the work ranch, our account won the biggest renewal in the delivery unit’s history, a multi-year deal announced to actual cheering on the floor. The unit is hiring six engineers, and I, nearly three years in, am now officially Not The New Guy. The kid two desks over asked me how deploys work, and I heard my tech lead’s proverbs come out of my own mouth.
Champions League final happened (Real Madrid, la Décima, in extra time), and the office’s lone Atlético fan has taught us all what real sports despair looks like. Atlético led until minute 93. Brutal.
TIL: how enterprise deals actually get priced: rate cards, SOWs, and margin math, the renewal crash course. My mental model of where salaries come from had been off by, oh, everything.