Leo Guinan

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

we are finite beings living amidst infinite complexity, anything we make is going to be invariably incomplete

To me, the real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don't even play the game, who rise above it. Those are the people who have such internal mental and self-control and self-awareness, they need nothing from anybody else. 

Heroism is a ridiculous basis for running a world. Main character energy is narrative fossil fuel.

Unlike how we were taught in school, learning a new skill isn't as simple as repetition and memory. I'd be an awful writer if that was the case. I have a low attention span and marijuana-tainted memory. Learning or improving on a skill is far more like an adventure video game than it is like memorizing flashcards.