10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima walked out of Konami in December 2015 with no engine, no team, and a non-compete. Four…
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10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Princess Diana
Princess Diana's life as a 10,000 Hours of Play RPG build: the Game she chose, the Skills she…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Madam C.J. Walker
From orphaned cotton-field laborer at seven to America's first self-made millionaire woman, Madam C.J. Walker's 6-Step build is…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Simone Biles
Why Simone Biles' Tokyo 2021 withdrawal and Paris 2024 comeback are the same Skill — read through Yu-kai…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan ran the most ambitious science-communicator build of the 20th century — Voyager mission scientist, Cornell professor,…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn't win cases — she rewrote the constitutional doctrine on sex so future cases would…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Akira Toriyama
The shy Nagoya designer who quit his ad job, drew Dragon Ball weekly for 11 years, and shaped…