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Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
Companies that exploit our gameplaying compulsion will have an edge over those who don’t, so every company that wishes to compete must gamify in ever more addictive ways, even though in the long term this harms everyone.
First: choose long-term goals over short-term ones. Short, frequent feedback loops offer regular reinforcement, which helps motiva
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But the thing is, more and more of life is structured like a game. Increasingly, corporations, institutions, governments have begun to understand how powerful this way of transforming and shaping our agency, our behavior is. And so social media is structured like a game. Our school and work lives are structured around points, ratings, grades, metri... See more
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
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“The gamification we encounter most often and most conspicuously in our lives doesn’t deliver the fulfilment or progress it promises. Instead, it maintains stasis. It keeps workers in line, funnelling profits to those who already have capital. It encourages us to study or train or play for goals that aren’t truly our own. And it reinforces the idea
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
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