C. Thi Nguyen

speaker

3,183 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Jul

C. Thi Nguyen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 2.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

I can go all out now.

And suddenly we can just try super hard or we can go in between.

Sometimes some games ask you to be super focused and some games don't.

And you can shift between them.

Because it doesn't matter, right?

Like, if I try something else, if I change my attitude to play Super Mario Smash goofily, and I lose to my kid, nothing happens.

Yeah.

So it's... One way to put it is that in...

In games, we have a lot of control, both over the goal that we pursue in the game and the purpose that we have for playing it.

We can maneuver both around.

But with metrics, it doesn't have to be this way.

You could try to control the metric that you cared about, and you could try to change your purpose.

But what they invite us to do...

is just to take it as given, to give up control, just to be like, well, here's the nearest metric, here's the nearest key performance indicator.

Oh, I'm on YouTube.

I guess I have to care about subscribers.

And you just take the most pervasive metric, and you just take it as the goal and the purpose, and you don't maneuver it.

They don't force this.

You could try to have a more playful attitude and a more game-like attitude towards these large external metrics.

And that's one of the things I hope people try to do.

Showing 661–680 of 3,183 · page 34 of 160