Video games prepared me for building a startup. Each game was a set of unfamiliar rules that I'd have to learn quickly and optimize decently well against. Once

Video games prepared me for building a startup. Each game was a set of unfamiliar rules that I'd have to learn quickly and optimize decently well against. Once I got good enough to reach the upper echelons of a game, I'd get bored and do the same with a new one. Repeat with dozens of different games, and it's very similar to the feeling of all the new unfamiliar things one has to learn in building a company. Plus, the game that generates the closest feeling to building a startup as a whole has been Civilization :-) And, it turns out ideas from games can be useful in products too: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/tech-trees https://parsnip.substack.com/p/tech-trees