C. Thi Nguyen
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3,183 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And I think one thing that's happened is that we have systematically become unwilling to listen or trust
quiet inner signals, which makes us dependent on external sources to evaluate our life for us.
I mean, metrics are prepackaged values.
And one of the things that I find powerful about games is that they balance the explicitness of giving you a goal or a value with a freedom to modify it.
I think they really...
exemplify at their best the mode of life you're trying to describe because this is okay
This is the most philosophical on high geek description of the most common activity.
Here's what you do when you play a game.
A game gives you a prepackaged target.
It gives you a scoring system.
You do it for a while and then you step back and you reflect and you ask yourself,
Was it fun?
Was it a good time?
Was it enriching?
Was it interesting?
Was it an enjoyable social experience?
And what you've actually done there is done a micro version of exactly, I think, the thing that you think is beautiful, which is first you plunge yourself into this alternate thing that specifies exactly what you do.
You try it on.
Then you step back and ask yourself from an angle outside that scoring system,
in a way that I think is cued to listening to internal signals.
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