Optimise for FUN

As people contort themselves to please the algorithm for short-term payouts, there’s even more of the less legible, less liquid, but ultimately more important long-term value up for grabs for you if you continue to just be yourself and talk about whatever lights your fire, algorithm be damned.

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

—Carl Jung

Play seems childish and even transgressive to most, and so they miss a major life trick. To be playful is to live true to who you are as a human.

Play is how we express our acceptance of uncertainty.

Life is uncertain. Play aligns our actions with this lack of knowing.

To play is experiment: “What happens if I do this? What would happen if we did that? What if…?”