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The Points You Shouldn't Score: A New Year's Resolution

The Points You Shouldn't Score: A New Year's Resolution

Pablo Torre Finds Out · Pablo Torre

January 6, 202644m 8s

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Show Notes

Everyone complains about cellphones. But there's something bigger and more insidious going on, from football teams and Netflix shows to law schools and Instagram. So philosopher C. Thi Nguyen offers some gamified advice for 2026, to plug the downside of data into the upside of your mind: Metrics help you win at work, but can you free yourself from the algo? Hyper-optimization has changed the NBA, but what about your kitchen? We've handed over complexity for competition, but is there time to steal back our humanity from A.I.? Plus: punk points, art governments, sore losers at Twister, a context-invariant kernel... and The Meat Sack.


• Read "The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game" by C. Thi Nguyen


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