Every player a referee

Changing rules to affect the game, how marketing actually works, and the sublime mystery of Scatman John

Hello, friendly human. Every week, this dispatch helps you make better creative and strategic choices through the exploration of decision-making frameworks. It’s good to see you.

When you change how it feels to play a game, you change how that game is played.

This is just as true for playing traditional sports, as it is for stock trading, or rug knitting,…