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There is an essay like that - https://medium.com/the-mission/your-life-is-tetris-stop-playing-it-like-chess-4baac6b2750d https://medium.com/the-mission/your-lif

by edent 6y ago

There is an essay like that - https://medium.com/the-mission/your-life-is-tetris-stop-playing-it-like-chess-4baac6b2750d https://medium.com/the-mission/your-life-is-tetris-stop-play... And here's my rebuttal to it - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/01/for-some-people-life-is-harder-than-chess/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/01/for-some-people-life-is-har...

qsort 6y ago
I'd suggest that life is neither Chess nor Tetris, it's Magic the Gathering: - You have to learn to relentlessly blame yourself for the mistakes you make, but also to accept that you can't change everything, and sometimes you WILL lose to random luck, no matter what you do. - Actually understanding probability goes a long way. - Regrettably, a large chunk of the game depends on your initial hand.
- I-M-S 6y ago
  Which is probably why my favourite card game is now Dominion - everybody has the exact same starting position and access to resources. Too bad it doesn't extrapolate to the life analogy.
- dec0dedab0de 6y ago
  ... and sometimes your opponent can just afford a better deck than you.
  - jerrre 6y ago
    This is perhaps why Magic the Gathering is a better metaphore for life than Poker, which also has the elements above, but not this one. Although with poker you have the house that always wins...
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago
  - Wizzards of the coast will take all your lunch money. No, wait. But actually true.
psychometry 6y ago
>In life, your only opponent is yourself. This argument reminds me of people who try to deny things like white privilege by describing how hard they had to work to get where they are now. Yeah, well, for a lot of people working hard (or not) isn't the only important factor that's determining their odds of success. That's the privilege...
- grawprog 6y ago
  >That's the privilege... Only experienced by white people of course which also by your implication are incapable of experiencing >Yeah, well, for a lot of people working hard (or not) isn't the only important factor that's determining their odds of success It's great you lead a privileged enough life you've never had to interact with poor struggling white people before.
  - psychometry 6y ago
    Thanks for proving my point. I assume at this point that people who still don't understand the concept of privilege are being deliberately obtuse, so I'm not going to bother with you. The information is out there. You can choose to make an effort to understand or not.
    - charrondev 6y ago
      I think the point is that whole collectively one group may be more privileged, people are individuals and not a collective. For example a black child born into extreme or moderate wealth is undoubtedly more privileged than a white child that is orphaned at a young age.
      - capitol_ 6y ago
        There is always statistical outliers in any large data set, but they don't affect the median value significantly.
        6y ago
alanbernstein 6y ago
Perhaps the only thing that life is, is life, and tetris is a slightly less-wrong metaphor than chess?

by edent 6y ago

qsort 6y ago

I'd suggest that life is neither Chess nor Tetris, it's Magic the Gathering: - You have to learn to relentlessly blame yourself for the mistakes you make, but also to accept that you can't change everything, and sometimes you WILL lose to random luck, no matter what you do. - Actually understanding probability goes a long way. - Regrettably, a large chunk of the game depends on your initial hand.

I-M-S 6y ago
Which is probably why my favourite card game is now Dominion - everybody has the exact same starting position and access to resources. Too bad it doesn't extrapolate to the life analogy.
dec0dedab0de 6y ago
... and sometimes your opponent can just afford a better deck than you.
- jerrre 6y ago
  This is perhaps why Magic the Gathering is a better metaphore for life than Poker, which also has the elements above, but not this one. Although with poker you have the house that always wins...
YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago
- Wizzards of the coast will take all your lunch money. No, wait. But actually true.

psychometry 6y ago

>In life, your only opponent is yourself. This argument reminds me of people who try to deny things like white privilege by describing how hard they had to work to get where they are now. Yeah, well, for a lot of people working hard (or not) isn't the only important factor that's determining their odds of success. That's the privilege...

grawprog 6y ago
>That's the privilege... Only experienced by white people of course which also by your implication are incapable of experiencing >Yeah, well, for a lot of people working hard (or not) isn't the only important factor that's determining their odds of success It's great you lead a privileged enough life you've never had to interact with poor struggling white people before.
- psychometry 6y ago
  Thanks for proving my point. I assume at this point that people who still don't understand the concept of privilege are being deliberately obtuse, so I'm not going to bother with you. The information is out there. You can choose to make an effort to understand or not.
  - charrondev 6y ago
    I think the point is that whole collectively one group may be more privileged, people are individuals and not a collective. For example a black child born into extreme or moderate wealth is undoubtedly more privileged than a white child that is orphaned at a young age.
    - capitol_ 6y ago
      There is always statistical outliers in any large data set, but they don't affect the median value significantly.
      - 6y ago

alanbernstein 6y ago

Perhaps the only thing that life is, is life, and tetris is a slightly less-wrong metaphor than chess?