> And it feels like a category error to ask which accountant, or political pundit, is the Greatest of All Time, but the answers surely matter more for the human

> And it feels like a category error to ask which accountant, or political pundit, is the Greatest of All Time, but the answers surely matter more for the human project than the ones for Scrabble or League of Legends—where data and answers are readily available. It feels like a category error because it is a category error. Competitive games have a finite set of explicitly defined rules and win conditions; jobs do not. > Even small changes along these lines would be a big deal. Imagine if each of us got as good at our jobs as the average teenager is at Fortnite. I think the average person is already probably better at their job than the average teenager is at Fortnite; it's just that the "win conditions" for an average person at a job are significantly more complex and can vary quite a bit between different people and situations. For example, besides whatever people themselves consider to be a "win" at their jobs, there's also things like this: https://dilbert.com/strip/2012-05-29 https://dilbert.com/strip/2012-05-29