SIX at 6: In Praise Of Doing Things Inefficiently, What You Can’t Be Efficient With, And Then?, Wasting Time, The Inefficient Way, and The Issue With Speed (opens in new tab)

Voluntarily Choosing To Do Things Inefficiently In his book Games: Agency as Art, C. Thi Nguyen (who I recently learned about through his appearance on the Dialectic podcast, one of my favorites in recent memory) defines “playing” as voluntarily doing something inefficiently. Nguyen notes that his definition is a spin on the philosopher Bernard Suits’s. In The Grasshopper: […]