The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, a leading expert on the philosophy of games and data, explores how scoring systems in games, corporations, and bureaucracies shape our desires and values.

These metrics encourage outsourcing our values to external authorities, prioritizing simple, countable things over what truly matters, at the cost of our independence.

The book challenges us to question if this is the game we really want to play.