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Games are seen as a tool to sell cloud - Amazon wants to build computationally intensive games that show off the power of the cloud to their enterprise customers, and that creates the wrong incentives for building fun games

Recipe for misery: Pursue things because society tells you to, not because you truly want them. Achievements are meaningless if they aren’t out of our desires but a product of mimesis.

When you just watch the game, it looks like you make decisions between extracting resources, investing in expansion, et cetera. By the way, that alone is a lesson that I think Starcraft players are already better at than a lot of people who end up getting MBAs

an opportunity for breaks: to pause and reflect, reconfigure.

To do great things, to really learn, you can’t shout suggestions from the rooftop then move on while someone else does the work. You have to get your hands dirty. You have to care about every step, lovingly craft every detail.

Tillie Olsen wrote: “In the twenty years I bore and reared my children . . . the simplest circumstances for creation did not exist.” It was a physical problem, a time problem; it was also a question of selfhood. “The obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensitive and deferential . . . contradicts and must

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Ability to engage across different channels –While new platforms often try to change user behavior and redirect their attention to a new destination, we’re interested in meeting members where they are. That could mean the ability for users to engage with the discussions via email or text message (if that's their preferred medium). Flexibility... See more