“When we say ‘well-read’ it implies one who thinks deeply about books, sees their underlying structures…To be ‘well-played’ has a similar meaning in the gaming space, in that it implies one who understands game mechanics, sees how games build on past precedent, and can adapt games to advance personal and professional goals.” Barry Johnson
Into the woods #wander
“Whatever minerals land or are deposited in a place determine what or who can make a living there millions of years later.”
Target currently has these small plastic treasure chests on sale at the front of my local stores for $1. I am finding they make nice containers for all the little, easily-lost pieces from the various board games we’re collecting.
Blessings and good fortune in the new year. Here are some of the more than forty years of collected coins my father gifted to us.
📚The Lost Words; A spell of words by @RobGMacfarlane and @jackiemorrisart. Listening to the audiobook version. A great way to begin the new year. www.thelostwords.org
Found this copy of an old New Yorker article, from 1936, where E.B. White describes the new technology of television as it appeared three years before RCA debuted their version at the 1939 World’s Fair. In it, White relates an speech given by David Sarnoff. “Mr. Sarnoff next gave a little talk, in which he cheerfully, and with enormous self-effacement, admitted the real problem of television was not its mechanical vagaries but finding programs for it when it finally gets ironed out.
I know he is thinking in three dimensions but he keeps forgetting the value of depth.