Patrick McKenzie

And the knock-on would have accomplished a few things in my career.

And also, against that, what was my Steam counter up to?

So Steam didn't include World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft was at least a thousand hours.

For me, Factorio recently was 750.

And then if you like some over 20 years, I've probably played video games for

4000 6000 hours.

And so that that's, you know, two to three years of professional effort if one thinks that it trades off directly with professional effort.

So I recently started working for an executive assistant, and one of the first suggestions that he gave was, hey, Patrick, will you friend me on Steam so that I can see how much you're playing in a given week?

And so if you're not making your priorities happen, we can have an honest discussion about priorities.

I said, that's really good advice, given that I spent far too much time rat-holing on Factorio relative to my true preferences.

You've got a really confident DA.

Go, Sammy, go.

I don't know if I'm inserting those words into his mouth, but the suggestion was genuinely his.

And he heard, you know, on the one hand, Factorio, wonderful game.

I actually think Factorio matters far more to the world than most video games do.

That's an entirely different piece that I'm trying to write at the moment.

Be that as it may.

Have you read Byrne's piece on this?

The Factorio mindset?