The Death of the Author: Telling Good Stories
The Death of the Author is a postmodernist essay published in 1967 by the French literary critic Roland Barthes.
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McDonald’s Sauce Dispenser is the greatest product ever
OK, that's a bold statement! I guess I should elaborate. Like a lot of teenagers, I worked in a Maccies one summer and I was struck by how awesome the sauce dispenser was.
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Gotta catch ’em all: The myth of requirements capture
When Pokémon Go was launched in July 2016 it took the mobile games world by storm. Smashing previous download records, the app leveraged the features of your standard smartphone to provide an excruciatingly simple augmented reality style gaming experience, allowing anybody to become their own Ash Ketchum, running around like a lunatic catching critters.
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Making the Mission: Impossible possible
Jack Reacher is pretty fabulous. If anyone reading this has read a Jack Reacher novel, or watched one of the Jack Reacher films, you'll be aware of the awesomeness of Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher.
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Dunka-chunka-snunka-bunka-Hollyoaks! Or: constructing a user-centered product roadmap
Hands up who loves Hollyoaks?!
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F**k you I won’t do what you tell me: the perils of the product roadmap
Who likes following orders? Better yet, who likes following orders blindly?
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Making like a mob boss: knowing your problem and how to fix it
Tony Soprano is a badass. He’s the epitome of power, charm, 'New Joy-sey' mafioso cool. Under his leadership, the New Jersey family grew in power to the point that it reckoned with the New York mob, which (irrespective of divided opinion on what really happened at the end of season 6) is a pretty impressive accomplishment in anyone’s book.
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