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C. Thi Nguyen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
771 total appearances

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Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

It's like, it's miserable.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

I just don't.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Dry fly fishing is so much more fun, but you got to do it because you catch more fish.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

It's so much more efficient.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And I'm kind of like, we're letting the fish go, man.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Like this is a game.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

This is a catch and release game.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Like you go out, you catch some number of fish and then you let them go and you go home.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And what is the goddamn point?

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Right.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And I think like this is there are times when you're forced to do something because you need to survive.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

But there are other times where we make these choices.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And I think like this is like I think a lot of the times we don't even realize we're making a choice.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

We think it's forced on us.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

I think the dude that I'm thinking there's a specific guy ran into just miserable on the side of the river, just like hating his fishing and thinking he had to do this.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

They thought it wasn't a choice.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

He thought he had to optimize for this particular score.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And I don't know, that seems to.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

missed the point of the whole thing.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

So yeah, that's why it's important to me.