I think you mix up translating into real life with translating into one-shot gaming.
For most real-world problems there’s a series of things people who are good at solving those problems do in the beginning when faced with the problem. If you want to fix a computer issue, “Reboot your computer” is an early game move.
Sure, but those areas aren’t the ones that have me interested in gaming metaphors to figure out how to solve my problems.
‘Found a startup’ is a bit more of an established process that ‘counts’ for my purposes here. There’s a lot of reading and learning I can do before getting started. (Compared to ‘build a functioning alignment community’). But even there I think it’s less like playing a game I’ve already studied such that the early game is memorized, and more like sitting down to play a multiplayer game for the first time, which shares structure with other games but is still involved a lot of learning on the fly. (I bet this is still reasonably true on your second or third startup, though maybe not if you literally are running Y Combinator). though interested in hearing from people who have run multiple to see if they think that tracks.
I think you mix up translating into real life with translating into one-shot gaming.
For most real-world problems there’s a series of things people who are good at solving those problems do in the beginning when faced with the problem. If you want to fix a computer issue, “Reboot your computer” is an early game move.
Sure, but those areas aren’t the ones that have me interested in gaming metaphors to figure out how to solve my problems.
‘Found a startup’ is a bit more of an established process that ‘counts’ for my purposes here. There’s a lot of reading and learning I can do before getting started. (Compared to ‘build a functioning alignment community’). But even there I think it’s less like playing a game I’ve already studied such that the early game is memorized, and more like sitting down to play a multiplayer game for the first time, which shares structure with other games but is still involved a lot of learning on the fly. (I bet this is still reasonably true on your second or third startup, though maybe not if you literally are running Y Combinator). though interested in hearing from people who have run multiple to see if they think that tracks.