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Project Aristotle is a reminder that when companies try to optimize everything, it’s sometimes easy to forget that success is often built on experiences — like emotional interactions and complicated conversations and discussions of who we want to be and how our teammates make us feel — that can’t really be optimized.

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

Charles Duhigg

The problem is that precisely matching challenges to capability is incredibly hard.

Theory of Fun for Game Design

Raph Koster

I devote about 80% of my weekday creative hours to work and spend most of my weekend hours writing. If I’m feeling inspired to write the Jungle Gym on a Friday afternoon, I strike while the iron is hot and make up the time over the weekend.

Integrating Publishing With Your Profession

junglegym.substack.com

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