On Infinite Games and Sonder [FF Vol. 27]
Short one today.
At the beginning of the year, I maintained a remarkable consistency in “silent mornings”. Every day, I would wake up and spend the first 2-3 hours of the day without any input. I would avoid looking at my phone, listening to music, or even reading. Normally, that was when I could get my best writing done too.
The year then turned faster, busier, less routine. The silent mornings ceased. Now, as the year winds down, I’m content to have rediscovered them. Silence makes room for the type of thinking that will pull at a thread of an idea. Without noise, it’s easier to follow the thread.
Just Don’t Lose
The goal of the infinite game is to keep playing.
It allures because it requires no evolution. It is, at its core, a call to maintain things as they are.
If all we have to do is not lose, then the means to sustain it can be flexible, impersonal, and unthoughtful.
We love infinite games.
Meditations While Meandering (November 14, 2024)
No goal, no final level, no end credits.
Cada Maestrito Con Su Librito
sonder | noun
: The feeling of realizing that everyone you see has a life as full and complex as your own
: The recognition that while a main character in your movie, you’re merely supporting cast in others, and at best an extra in most.
Typically encountered when silent and alone yet amid hundreds of others.
I was overcome with a deep sense of sonder today on the metro as I watched my fellow passengers and wondered which stage of life they were in.
* “Cada maestrito con su librito” is an Argentinian saying that roughly translates “to every little master, their own little book”.
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