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When they get to subjects like risk, books on decision-making traditionally introduce analogies between life and games. Chess, Go, poker, casino games and football are the usual suspects. I prefer an unlikely candidate: Tetris. Like other games Tetris is a closed world, but it models the primary processes in open-world risk management – dealing with increasing entropy and consciously choosing your path to death – very well. Playing Tetris helps you hone entropic decision-making skills.
A fait accompli is an irreversible commitment to a course of enactment before a stakeholder has a chance to contribute. When I pull a fait accompli on you, I suddenly close off other options you thought were open. Your alternate mental models or possible worlds die a sudden death, taking your psychological investment – the momentum – with them.
But what do you expect from the infantry, you know? I know that all the guys that were bad in garrison were perfect fucking soldiers in combat. They’re troublemakers and they like to fight. That’s a bad garrison trait but a good combat trait—right? I know I’m a shitty garrison soldier, but what the fuck does it matter? Okay, I got to shine my fucking boots. Why do I care about shining my goddamn boots?”
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