2022-06-22

  • Have been reading a very interesting set of Blogs in Crash Early, Crash Often. Particularly enjoying this one I’m in now, which directly references Carse’s Finite & Infinite Games (my book of the year 2021, and likely book of the decade, if history is a guide). There are lots of ideas in the blog post. Some of the more interesting is how there is an interplay between which finite/infinite games people solve/fail to solve in their own lives and parenting. The blog points out that one model of parenting is that people do their best to solve the relevant finite/infinite games they can, and hand off those they can’t to the next generation. Each generation goes through this process, and solving infinite games in particular is challenging enough that there is always enough failure cases that result in the production of the next generation. And then this concept itself sustains the infinite game of life itself, whose only goal is to keep playing (aka keep having kids). That’s probably pretty hard to follow, even if you have read Finite & Infinite Games, and probably impossible to follow if you haven’t. So really, just think of it like this. As usual these days for me, the idea of interestingness here comes from the connection of two/more seemingly unrelated things. In this case, it’s parenting/evolution and finite/infinite games. Previously, finite/infinite games lived in my head as individual pursuits, something that I as an individual have to work through on my own. But this blog does a nice job of modeling these games in a way that seems more inclusive of me being a member of an ecosystem. Cool stuff.
    waywt
  • Things to build:
    • improved search
      • improve UI
    • improved ability to share posts
    • improved ability to organize info/posts
      • tags
    • take photos
    • brand info stuff
      • brand links
    • monitoring/visibility

Date
June 22, 2022