Book Recommendation:

“Lessons in the Fundamentals of GO“

by Toshiro Kageyama, 7-Dan

Four parts to this post

1. Heuristics

2. Excerpts

3. Challenge

4. Meta

Heuristics // Games –> the Grind

You want to display how smart a character is in a story?

Show them mulling over a  strategy game.

Now, just because you love playing RISK on Friday nights doesn’t make you a brilliant military strategist. Even still, I think applying heuristics from strategy games can give us a helpful point of view for how we approach our work.

Let’s consider the game, GO.

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