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This simple 150 odd page book to me a long time to read. It was an exercise in exploration of life and living.
Everything in life it is play (unless when you are forced to play when it ceases to be play) and it examines the types of play and how we play. When it gets to why we play it gets profoundly interesting and deep. For a book which is limited in its examples and cautious in choice of words, it definitely goes a far way.
From play to players, creation to creators, and nature to technology and the stories that surround it all, it is a sweeping journey I would strongly recommend to those who can muster the courage and focus. It is dense. Not cryptically so but in the sense of ideas and information. As I said about examples are tactically used. Lesser authors would have added a paragraph to each sentences in several paragraphs found here. They would have written books for every chapter in here. I am sure they are already there.
While I had started it before, I couldn't persist. This time I did. Carefully perusing through page by page. They said it was a game theory book. No, it is a book about examining our living and it is essential philosophy.
This is a 6/5. A book which deeply impressed me and will find me thinking and probably returning to it. I haven't done my research on Carse yet, but this book is deeply Zen without rarely even mentioning it.
Everything in life it is play (unless when you are forced to play when it ceases to be play) and it examines the types of play and how we play. When it gets to why we play it gets profoundly interesting and deep. For a book which is limited in its examples and cautious in choice of words, it definitely goes a far way.
From play to players, creation to creators, and nature to technology and the stories that surround it all, it is a sweeping journey I would strongly recommend to those who can muster the courage and focus. It is dense. Not cryptically so but in the sense of ideas and information. As I said about examples are tactically used. Lesser authors would have added a paragraph to each sentences in several paragraphs found here. They would have written books for every chapter in here. I am sure they are already there.
While I had started it before, I couldn't persist. This time I did. Carefully perusing through page by page. They said it was a game theory book. No, it is a book about examining our living and it is essential philosophy.
This is a 6/5. A book which deeply impressed me and will find me thinking and probably returning to it. I haven't done my research on Carse yet, but this book is deeply Zen without rarely even mentioning it.
This book didn't affect my perception on reality like I hoped it might, but Carse executed nicely on what I think is a brilliant concept.
Zero fitted fancy stories.
Zero references to already-read-by-everybody-pop books.
Zero apple-microsoft-etcetera ceos 'analysis'.
Plethora of orthogonal, thought provoking, and impactful takes. Now we're talking.
Usually, the most interesting references steam from the least expected places. This one was buried in a semi-technical discussion on Reddit. Thank's, Mr. Buterin jr, thanks Kevin Kelly.
This is a cohesive, deep, and philosophical but at the same time practical work, that blends:
- signaling theory
- non-conformity theme
- process vs goals dichotomy
- internal vs external locus issue
- meta-patterns
- delicious game theory flavor
Pro's:
- style of chunks similar to approach of Scott Adams/Derek Sivers
- incentivize reflecting a lot
- terse narrative, steel nutcracker is needed
- belongs to my 'demanding' shelf
- 0.28 high highlights/total_pages ratio: every third page has a highlight
- might be attributed to level of wisdom:
Tastes like a dry flour for some, but would be ambrosia for others.
Zero references to already-read-by-everybody-pop books.
Zero apple-microsoft-etcetera ceos 'analysis'.
Plethora of orthogonal, thought provoking, and impactful takes. Now we're talking.
Usually, the most interesting references steam from the least expected places. This one was buried in a semi-technical discussion on Reddit. Thank's, Mr. Buterin jr, thanks Kevin Kelly.
This is a cohesive, deep, and philosophical but at the same time practical work, that blends:
- signaling theory
- non-conformity theme
- process vs goals dichotomy
- internal vs external locus issue
- meta-patterns
- delicious game theory flavor
Pro's:
- style of chunks similar to approach of Scott Adams/Derek Sivers
- incentivize reflecting a lot
- terse narrative, steel nutcracker is needed
- belongs to my 'demanding' shelf
- 0.28 high highlights/total_pages ratio: every third page has a highlight
- might be attributed to level of wisdom:
Tastes like a dry flour for some, but would be ambrosia for others.