Chris Platts

The goal of a game is to win; the purpose of a game is to have fun. In toxic games, the goals overwhelm the purpose. You can win a game by mastering it, but also feel crap by failing to see that there is a larger game whose rules you have broken in order to feel like a winner.

storytelling > big budgets

If only we can have the perspective of the future with us as we live in the present

AI tools have made me more productive, creative, and capable than I've ever been. They've also made me lazier in ways I didn't notice until recently. The trick is using AI to amplify skills and judgment not replace them.

There is only one dreamer fractured through the innumerable, all of us playing our role. The absolute best and worst universes exist simultaneously

In nature there is no knower, there is just knowing

If anyone can build anything then what value is building? Wont everything in tech be eventually near worthless?

stacked founder stress :(

ego is a false self living exclusively in a prison of past regrets and future anxieties

The same peak under changing light at six different times.

Choice is the act of hesitation just before we make a decision.

This is why most people consume instead of create. The artist, the writer, the creator within you died of suffocation long ago. Starved for the oxygen of empty space, silence, presence.

Every original thought, every authentic creation, every genuine expression requires space. But most people have no space. Our minds are a hard drive with zero free memory, completely full of installed software, running background processes constantly.

Guilt requires past, anxiety requires future. Regret requires past, hope requires future. Resentment requires past, worry requires future. Present moment only? No suffering. Just what is.

Ya know, we're never gonna survive unless we get a little...crazy.

You can't see what you look through

We watch choices happen and claim credit for them.

We don’t stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

my body does not know the difference between a mistake at work and being hunted for sport