In my bubble some like to dunk on James Clear / Atomic Habits but I get a lot of aha moments out of his newsletter. Loved e.g. this bit:
"Work is endless. Exercise is endless. Parenting is endless. Same with marriage, writing, investing, creating, and more. You get to choose the parts of your life, but many of the important things in life cannot be "finished."
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Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle you can sustain and that allows you to make daily progress on the areas that matter.
Embrace the fact that life is continual and look for ways to enjoy the daily practice."
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@CorinnaBaldauf I'm wracking my brain for the Alistair Cockburn "game" quote I used when teaching agile. But Covid has stolen so many memorybconnections. #sigh
Something about two kinds of game, short and long, or immediate and continuing …
Do you know the one I mean?
@deborahh @CorinnaBaldauf
I think the term was something like an infinite collaborative game. Where the outcome of one "round" is the setup of the next "round"
Opposed to a finite game where the are clear end criteria
@realn2s @CorinnaBaldauf yes! You are right. Finite vs. Infinite … I still don't have the quote, but found this (image).
It references:
"Elements to a Theory of Software Development", from https://lnkd.in/d86HVQrw
@realn2s @CorinnaBaldauf I've emailed Alustair to ask for the quote. :-)
@deborahh @CorinnaBaldauf
Always good to have contacts 😁
This might also help
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alistaircockburn_finite-cooperative-games-software-development-activity-6926893734521384960-Ifzi
Sorry, doesn't ring a bell. Can only find this, which is quite different: https://blog.codinghorror.com/software-development-as-a-collaborative-game/
@CorinnaBaldauf @realn2s yeah. The subtitle of his later book says "a cooperative game" and a web search only finds those references. But it's from a much older book.
