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A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
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Clearly describing the game your playing and the metrics you use to judge success allows the team, independent of the product manager, to sort through different ideas and decide which ones are worth acting on.
Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro • Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology (Cracking the Interview & Career)
A simple truth: metaphors shape human interactions. They are not just poetic writing tools, rather they’re the lenses through which we experience being part of a group dynamic. Today, they can help us understand the paradigm shift the digital economy is undergoing.
Mirror • The Power of Metaphor! Using Our Lenses to Enrich Web3 Communiti…
Cognified sports—Smart
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
we play to continue the game rather than “win” the Internet on any given day, though that’s nice too.
Venkatesh Rao • Boat Stories
we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.
Pedro Domingos • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Game B
Game B is a memetic tag that aggregates a myriad of visions, projects and experiments that model potential future civilisational forms. The flag on the hill for Game B is an anti-fragile, scalable, increasingly omni-win-win civilisation. This is distinct from our current rivalrous Game A civilisation that is replete with destructive externalities and power asymmetries that produce existential risk. Yet Game B is not a prescriptive ideology (or an ideology at all): while the eyes of Game B players may be fixed on the same flag, the hills are multitudes and the flag sits atop each, and no player individually is equipped to map a route in advance.
Juan Orbea and • 6 cards
Math is good at optimizing a known system; humans are good at finding a new one. Put another way, change favors local maxima; innovation favors global disruption.
Alistair Croll • Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Lean (O'Reilly))
Some metagames are fleeting and unsustainable.