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About The Plan — The Escape Plan
Not sure about this. Here via rejuvenilia and all of that sequence of books that came out a couple of years ago (that I didn't read).
gameify  blog  existential  playful  play 
july 2010 by simonbostock
Are meaningful careers a cover story? « Meteuphoric
How do I tag these ones? It'll come to me after in a while.

It's true, people can have evil, destructive hobbies and nobody cares - despite this being a choice. And we blame people for getting paid for collecting parking tickets.

I'd rather be in the army than sell Coca Cola, if that makes any sense.
gameify  play  idleness  unwork 
july 2010 by simonbostock
The Play Ethic: Infinite games and not-so-finite brains: PK @ Wonderlab: Day 1
This is the Pat Kane from Hue and Cry, fairly unbelievably.

I'm slightly suspicious of all the conflation going on here. Is Nudge a Tory philosophy? I don't think so, it's a collection of observations about the world which appear to hold up and criticising it on an ad hominem (or ad memeinem) basis is dumb. (And, while we're at it, Jesse Schell didn't *advocate* the gameification of everything, he was predicting it/warning against it).

Some interesting thoughts here, anyhoo.
gameify  play  ludocracry 
july 2010 by simonbostock
Johan Huizinga's 'Homo Ludens' < PopMatters
Summary/review of the book that everybody talks about and few have read.
gameify  ludicity  games  theory  play 
july 2010 by simonbostock

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