Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen on Why Ultrarunning Is a Game, and Maybe the Meaning of Life

C. Thi Nguyen is a philosopher at the University of Utah, a former food writer for the Los Angeles Times , a rock climber, and one of the world's leading thinkers on the philosophy of games. His new book, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game , argues that games are the defining art form of our era, and that the scoring systems that make them so joyful turn quietly destructive when institutions and apps