From Twister to Twitter—Games and Gamification with C. Thi Nguyen

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Games can be good or bad. Or evil. Or stupid. But what happens when we apply the artificial constraints of game design to real world discourse? Philosophy professor C. Thi Nguyen is here to deepen our understanding of games and raise a few flags about the gamification of everyday life.

(6:21) Definition of a game
(23:42) Games as art in the medium of agency
(37:04) Should games be fun?
(47:37) Gaming in the real world, from Twitter to GPAs
(1:05:12) The game of investing
(1:18:45) Buy Sell or Hold

Host: David Gardner
Guest: C. Thi Nguyen
Produceer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	27. That is the consecutive number of weeks for this podcast that it turns out I have used the word game at some point in the podcast.
0:10.0	One or more times. Rule breaker investing spends a third of its time on investing, a third of its time on business,
0:16.1	and a third of its time on life, investing, business, and life. And yet, my transcriber shows that for 27 consecutive weeks I have somehow managed,
0:27.7	unwittingly no less, to stick in the word game at least once dating back to July 27th of last year, July 27th, when somehow
0:36.9	I did not use the word game in a podcast titled, somewhat ironically, July
0:42.2	mailbag, The Thr thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
0:47.0	Speaking of thrills, I am thrilled to connect this week with gamer, philosopher, and author,
0:52.0	C. T-Nwen.
0:53.0	Most of all T is going to help you and me get I think
0:57.0	above the game for a while this week.
1:01.0	See the game outside the games that we play of investing business and life.
1:07.0	Help you and me think through for a bit what games are, why we play games, why games are
1:13.7	why games are so valuable and sometimes destructive and at a
1:18.2	met a game level whether we're in some games that we don't even realize we're playing as individuals and as a society.
1:27.6	So from Kata'on to Twitter, let's range wide.
1:32.1	And let's use the word game for at least a 28th consecutive
1:36.3	week only on this week's rule breaker investing.
1:39.0	It's the rule breaker investing podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
1:47.0	Well I'm more than usually excited for our podcast this week.
1:51.0	In fact, I'm going to call this one out right now like
1:53.2	babe Ruth mythically pointing to the fence before the next pitch comes in. If I do my job
1:57.9	right this week, I think this will be a home run. And maybe the year's first bestie my guest this week
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