What rules are you playing by?
Time & Money
English - May 02, 2022 16:44 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBEntrepreneurship Business Careers money finance entrepreneurship freelancing small business time philosophy Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The systems we operate in all have different incentive systems: our business models, the social media platforms, our economy, the culture at large… And many of these incentive systems have become simplified and gamified—changing the way we view the results of our work and the goals that we hold. In this episode, I explore how the philosophy of games can help us identify when we’re just trying to “game the system” instead of taking effective action based on our own values and goals.
Resources:
C. Thi Nguyen at the Royal Institute of PhilosophyNguyen on The Ezra Klein ShowHow Twitter Gamifies CommunicationWhat Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian DaubGames: Agency As Art by C. Thi NguyenThis episode is also available in essay form.