I reviewed C. Thi Nguyen’s THE SCORE. It’s a great work of philosophy — aimed at the broader public, but still thorough and insightful.

I wrote this at the end of the review:

‘After reading this book, I told my wife, ‘This is a book I wish I had written.’ I had at one point outlined a book that tackled similar issues, and it is very easy to fall into a line of thinking as if you’ve been ‘scooped’ by a fellow philosopher. But that’s all nonsense. I am glad I didn’t write this book, because it would have been considerably worse than Nguyen's. Only someone who had thought so deeply about games could explain the ills of our gamified world.’