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Timmy, Johnny, and Spike Revisited | MAGIC: THE GATHERING

This column will have two distinctively different readers. The first will have read the original article or at least be aware of the three terms. The second will be learning about this R&D classification for the first time. This column will have someth...

MAGIC: THE GATHERING

@danluu the lead designer for Magic: the Gathering splits players into three profiles:
Timmy wants to experience something cool (big creatures, explosions)
Johnny wants to express themself (be offbeat, or creative)
Spike wants to win

I think this applies to most games, and people shift between them. For Online multiplayer, I am a spike who reads up on the best strategies. But for single player RPG I'm more interested in a good story than optimizing my run.

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Escalation isn’t a dirty word. Sometimes teams disagree because they have different priorities or weigh tradeoffs differently.

Asking leadership to weigh in with guidance is the right thing to do. Your job is to frame the options and reason for misalignment.

Indecision kills.

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It matters how you value material wealth vs social, but I would guess they are at least 25%ile in US.

Part of this may be due to Vietnam's growth in the past 10-20 years, and your statement may have been true circa 2000 but feels qualitatively wrong now.

@danluu I'm visiting Vietnam with my wife, and I think this comment is qualitatively off. Most of my wife's family have government or middle class jobs; some of them have multiple pieces of land. My guess is they are around 95%ile in Vietnam (only 1-2 own cars). And they are definitely not bottom of the barrel compared to the US. My family all have decent phones, internet access, schooling, strong social ties.

@doga I recently had to do some video verification of my government ID, so maybe that could work? But yeah, any motivated actor will circumvent it.

Agreed this actually makes sense for businesses / agencies, but then why not just roll it out specifically to them? (And charge 10-100x more). Or maybe make it an extra for advertising on Meta.

Of course, how does one verify they are "General Motors."

@doga Verified identity remains the biggest red herring of social media (Jon Haidt is really into it). I have no inside info, and tons of question:
What happens on name clashes?
What if I have a professional pseudonym?
Will the $$$ actually cover support costs, or is this a loss leader still?
Do big companies also get this? Or is there another tier?
Etc. etc.
This is a fascinating essay about the elements of good conversation and the difference between “takers” who keep things going, “givers” who tend to ask a lot of questions, and how the wrong match-up can cause a conversation to stall. Includes good advice backed up by tons of academic research. This is one to save and revisit often. https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"

Experimental History
@doga If only there were some sort of expert in how tweets were seen on the Home Timeline...

@doga

I also remember that NYTimes had similar problem, but there the issue was more that the Times was posting too much that only a handful got impressions.

And of course there's the issue of which countries follow Musk: if he has 50M followers outside US, they might filter him out due to language