Games
A form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.
8 posts
- 3/19/26Games
The Contagion of Reality
Kill Screen uses Tottenham Hotspur, Roger Caillois, and capitalism’s effect on sports to argue that capitalist structures corrupt play by rupturing a game’s magic circle. But we claim finance can…
- 2/24/26Games
The Bot That Finished Second
Every month, KmikeyM shareholders play a poker tournament. $50 buy-in. Real money. Real stakes. The second Tuesday of every month since 2020. (Join us!) On February 10, 2026, for the first time, an AI…
- 7/28/25Business
Blippo+
Blippo+ has launched on Playdate. It’s a surreal streaming service from Planet Blip, part sci-fi TV experiment, and part video game. Created by YACHT with a dream team of collaborators (including me…
- 8/7/24Games
Space Gambling
Star Trek: The Next Generation is famously Gene Roddenberry’s utopian fantasy of a world without money (listen to this Marketplace episode, or read Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics or The Economics of Star…
- 1/14/22Games
Chess Lab
Like many people I got into chess during the pandemic. I’d played as a kid, I watched Queen’s Gambit, and for a while I even experimented with my own version of what I now know is called fairy chess.…
- 4/30/15Games
HOW TO PLAY CHANGE WIZARD
We’ve heard a few people say they don’t get it. Here is a quick guide. This is the game. You’re looking at a line of customers. That dude with the beard is at the front and he just wants a chocolate…
- 11/20/14Games
Those Kind of Assets
In Dan Hon’s 186th issue of his newsletter, Things That Have Caught My Attention, he finds himself sitting in a suburban Starbucks thinking about the shipping container Starbucks near the Portland…
- 5/14/14Finance
Re-Thinking the Game of Monopoly
It would be hard to simplify capitalism further than Monopoly. The game attempts to express the ruthlessness of raw capitalism by declaring that whoever has the most money at the “end” is the winner.…
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