\u201cBrilliant and wildly original . . . Nguyen is a connoisseur of games, and his musings about them are ingenious and entertaining . . . The Score is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual glee.\u201d \u2013 Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post
\n\u201cI give this excellent book five stars.\u201d \u2013 Stuart Jeffries, Financial Times
\n\u201cQuirky and enthusiastic . . . In The Score, Nguyen] combines an enthusiast\u2019s celebration of games\u2019 inner workings with a lament for the power of metrics to flatten our lives and capture our values . . . Nguyen helps us see how games transform instincts into something beautiful, valuable and meditative.\u201d \u2013 Bloomberg
\nA philosophy of games to help us win back control over what we value<\/p>\n
The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen \u2013 one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data \u2013 takes us deep into the heart of games, and into the depths of bureaucracy, to see how scoring systems shape our desires.<\/p>\n
Games are the most important art form of our era. They embody the spirit of free play. They show us the subtle beauty of action everywhere in life in video games, sports, and boardgames \u2013 but also cooking, gardening, fly-fishing, and running. They remind us that it isn\u2019t always about outcomes, but about how glorious it feels to be doing the thing. And the scoring systems help get us there, by giving us new goals to try on.<\/p>\n
Scoring systems are also at the center of our corporations and bureaucracies \u2013 in the form of metrics and rankings. They tell us exactly how to measure our success. They encourage us to outsource our values to an external authority. And they push on us to value simple, countable things. Metrics don\u2019t capture what really matters; they only capture what\u2019s easy to measure. The price of that clarity is our independence.<\/p>\n
The Score asks us is this the game you really want to be playing?<\/p>\n
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