afaict, something like 73% of the people who have Gone On The Journey actually did something like this the shape of it: you know that the Journey tends to end back where you began, and you're already afraid to get too disconnected from where you began anyways... so you go on a big of the jo... See more

C. THI NGUYEN: So the essential insight that I got from Suits is that in so many games, the target isn’t the point. The point is this rich experience along the way. And I think a lot of the mistakes we make with games is we get into these things and we forget about these larger purposes. The fact that they can be fun. The fact that they can be beau... See more

When we’re focused on first-order outcomes, we look for the instant success, the instant best seller, the instant fill-in-the-blank. We search for shortcuts, life hacks, and advice from self-proclaimed gurus. We “applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint,” Chris Hadfield writes, “rather than the years of dogged preparation

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