Trivial Pursuits

If you don't like it when people make important decisions based on metrics because metrics can be abused, then you're really not gonna like what happens when people make important decisions without metrics.

The distinction between good games and bad games here seems more like a distinction between games and things that are not games. The "games matter because games don't matter" thing seems more on point. Things like ranking colleges can never be games as long as they have serious real-world consequences.

> But it would take a writer of rare skill – which Nguyen is not – to make it compelling reading.

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