Community Is Not a Product
The word ‘community’ is everywhere, and it’s starting to mean nothing.
Before Screens, There Was the Table
Every generation rediscovers the same thing: put a game between people, and something happens that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. People have been sitting around a table and playing games together for thousands of years. We keep acting like we just discovered it.
The Show That Made Me Care About Trains
At its core, Jet Lag: The Game is about getting from one place to another. In practice, it is about suffering, strategy, and knowing the exact departure time of every regional rail connection in Switzerland.
Proximity As Productivity
Libraries and cafés feel different from working alone at home — and it’s got nothing to do with the books.
The Spoon You Didn’t Know You Spent
Before you got out of bed, you have already spent something.
Taskmaster and the Art of the Stupid Challenge
The challenge is to move a pumpkin across a field without touching the ground. What happens next tells you everything about the person doing it.
We Live in a Rectangle Now
At some point, the screen stopped being a tool and started being the room.