Laurence Chen
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The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of games is that you can get sucked into this experience of just craving and wanting to be in a clear, crisp and gentle universe where you know exactly what to do and exactly how well it’s measured.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
The game dialectic is electric!
So if you have large-scale bureaucracies that need to be organized and function coherently, then you need these kind of simple, nuance-free packets of information. And I think that’s one of the reasons we’ve seen this constant rise of simplified metrical analysis.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
What is the pain you want to sustain?
–Mark Manson
i.e., Do you want the reward but not the struggle? Want the results but not the process of getting them? What values are worth the effort?
J. Greenleaf Whittier:
For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been!
No, I shan’t let this become “a better Pinterest”.
there’s this struggle in my head. Is the world ending, or is it a nice day and I’m getting coffee? Obviously, it’s not a binary thing, but living this way is sometimes brain-scrambling. It’s not like the constant doom and gloom of Twitter was making me a better climate activist. Instead I’d be paralyzed. Twitter incentivizes you to live in this... See more
Charlie Warzel • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Yes. Regrettably, it’s also how it’s used; how one filters signal from the taxing noise. Twitter has been positive for a few, much more negative for many more. But a few figured out the compounding formula.
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
Curate connect organize lead – Seth Godin
Drive your dopamine dream; don’t be driven. Steer now. –Laurence Chen