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Careers paths viewed in terms of ladders, lateral moves and and jungle gyms are a case of what Deleuze and Guattari call a striated space. That’s like moving through visible pathways that are designed for movement: roads, elevators, stairs, corridors.
The Adjacency Fallacy
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Don’t worry how or where you begin. As long as you keep moving, your success will arrive far from where you start.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
But the goals of a game aren't actually arbitrary at all. They only seem arbitrary when we look in the wrong place. In the rest of life, we are used to justifying our goals by looking at the value of the goals themselves or by looking forward, to what follows from those goals. But with the goals of games, we often need to look backward. We need to look at the value of the activity of pursuing those goals. In ordinary practical life, we usually take the means for the sake of the ends. But in games, we can take up an end for the sake of the means. Playing games can be a motivational inversion of ordinary life.
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