Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2019-07-16
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Jane McGonigal: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #138
Jane McGonigal – How Games Make Life Better - [Invest Like the Best, EP.138]
Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems.
Jane McGonigal discussed Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Patrick O'Shaughnessy discussed Reality Is Broken by Jane McGonigal, Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, and SuperBetter by Jane McGonigal.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Flow
Discussed“If you go to a game developers conference, the book everybody has read is Flow by Mike Csikszentmihalyi. That's a given.”
Where to get it
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Reality Is Broken
Discussed“And in your first book, reality is broken. I think it was a four part framework, sort of four things that all games share in common.”
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Finite and Infinite Games
Discussed“I'm curious, we talked before we started hitting record about James Kars' work and his famous book, which is called Finite and Infinite Games, and the role, if any, that his thinking or his philosophy has played on you as a game designer”
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SuperBetter
Discussed“You mentioned secret identity. For some reason, I don't remember that in the book. I'm curious. It sounds like fun. It's the most controversial.”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Reality Is Broken
“She's the author of Reality is Broken, Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, and is the inventor and co-founder of Super Better”
Plugged SuperBetter
“And I think you've seen my more recent book, Super Better. There's one chapter on it that I always point parents towards, which is how to make the leap from games to gameful”
Plugged SuperBetter
“And then I wrote a book explaining the research because in my experience, there was a lot of skepticism. I've been kind of high profile in my work.”
Plugged SuperBetter
“And so anyway, that's the story of the platform in the book. And I'm really happy with how it helps people. Yeah. Yeah. As an option.”