Rahul Vohra: recommendation

Transcript context

…I'm sure you will. It's such a cool topic to be talking about. We've gone deep on gaming history in and of its own so often here on Acquired. I thought a good jumping-off point—before we get into your specific principles that you use at Superhuman—is let's talk about what is a game? It sounds like a simple question, sometimes hard to define. There are no fewer than eight or nine definitions on Wikipedia. From your perspective, how do you think about it? I like to use a definition that I came across in a book that is, by the way, the best on the topic—The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell. You can get really complicated, you can get really academic, even abstract about the definition of a game. But in my mind, Jesse puts it best—a game is simply something that you play. This seems hard to argue with. There are all kinds of other definitions out there, but I always come back to this one. A game is something that you play. Wait, so let me push on that a little bit. Is the guitar a game, if I'm playing guitar, or is that a different use of the wordplay?…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.