You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world. - Ian Bogost
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.
- Ian Bogost
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than… - Ian Bogost
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than…
My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or… - Ian Bogost
My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or…
If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you… - Ian Bogost
If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you…
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. - Ian Bogost
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.
A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard. - Ian Bogost
A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.
Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do. - Ian Bogost
Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.
The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all. - Ian Bogost
The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful i… - Ian Bogost
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful i…
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