Life is a Game

Gaming is serious business. It’s now worth at least five times more than the movie and music industries combined.

I’ve loved playing computer games for as long as I can remember. It probably started in a dingy, cigarette-smoke-filled arcade on the upper floor of Federal Bowl in the early eighties. Bored out of my mind while my father and his colleagues enjoyed their bowling downstairs, I would plot my escape from those mundane evenings—one twenty-sen coin at a time—into the pixelated worlds of Pac-ManGalaga and Space Invaders.

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Understanding the Human Condition Through Fiction

Let me confess something: I’m that person who still hoards books while everyone else has evolved into podcast-consuming sophisticates. Don’t get me wrong – I too consume podcasts during my morning exercises (or what I optimistically label as ‘exercise’), but there’s something about the printed word that refuses to let go of my soul. As I read non-fiction books to keep up professionally, I make it a point to add good literary fiction into the mix to have a have holistic view of the human condition.

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