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Infinite games - Edward Says

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There are many ways to spend the hours in a day. They can be frittered in the cubicle farm, each day flying by in a haze of monotony and stiff obedience to middle managers, or they can be spent with greater agency, pursuing specific and personal visions and goals. Pursuing the latter could be de

There are many ways to spend the hours in a day. They can be frittered in the cubicle farm , each day flying by in a haze of monotony and stiff obedience to middle managers, or they can be spent with greater agency, pursuing specific and personal visions and goals. Pursuing the latter could be described as playing an infinite game. James Carse, the author of Infinite Games describes ‘…two kinds of games: finite and infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.’ Being a writer or an entrepreneur is an inf

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