I'm pulling on the driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time to rather drive to work.

Okay, so today's interesting podcast.

What I'm going to do today is I want to talk about a lesson that I learned that took me many

years to learn.

And I want to sort of walk you through how I got there and then talk about why I believe

this and how this impacts how I designed today.

In fact, how I live my life.

So the lesson is let the best idea win.

And I want to explain why that's a very core idea and an important idea.

But to do that, I'm going to tell a story.

So we're going to go back in time.

Get in the way back, Mitchie.

Ooh, go back to the year, 1995, I guess.

Or 1994.

Let's go back to 1994.

So before I worked at Wizards, I was a magic player.

The game came out in 1993 in the summer.

I started playing then, and I was hooked

instantly. I really, really liked magic. And at the time, I was a game designer for fun, I guess,

you know, amateur game designer. And I would design my own games, and I would have fun doing that.

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