Source
The Score
C. Thi Nguyen
C. Thi Nguyen's book, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game (Penguin Press), on how metrics, rankings, and quantified scoring systems — designed for games, where they create joy and meaning — colonize the rest of life, replacing rich, subtle personal values with simplified, trackable substitutes. Source for the rock-climbing, social-media, university-ranking, cookbook, screen-time, and pickup-artist-culture material in Episode 308.
Discussed in
- Episode 308 — 308-are-metrics-controlling-your-life