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what game are you playing? - by Aadil

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Some thoughts on work, ambition, and making it out the hood

what game are you playing? Some thoughts on work, ambition, and making it out the hood Aadil May 18, 2026 32 6 1 Share I. At a retreat, someone asks me: “Do you treat your life as a game or are you just doing your own thing?” “Definitely my own thing”, I answer. I’m watching the sunset over a ranch that’s nice enough to host a celebrity wedding, eating steak and exotic honey paid for by the LPs, in a room with 100 brilliant young people using their talents to get people more addicted to their phones, and all I can think about is how I’m just a kid from Scarborough, Ontario. How the hell did I

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