Archive - Garbage Collected

I Had a Simple Question About Wordle. 1000 Days of Data Later...

An accidental, unnecessarily exhaustive deep dive into the metagame of a Hangman variant.

Mar 25 • Bharath Mohan

January 2026

Valve Should Buy Discord

An Unintentionally Timely Piece

Jan 7 • Bharath Mohan

December 2025

Valve: The Reverse Apple

How a video game company built an empire by inverting the playbook

Dec 18, 2025 • Bharath Mohan

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