Forever Goals

I like infinite games. These are things you do over and over because they are fun and you want to get better at it. You want to get better at it so that you can make the game more fun and want to play it more. The game is the point. But I often do have a secondary reason to play them: to make progress on a forever goal. My podcast, Write While True, is one example. Its name is even a nod to infinite games because it’s an infinite loop. The goal is not to get listeners or make money. The podcast’s forever goal is to make me into a better speaker. Now that I have a co-host, it’s also to make me a better listener and conversation partner. This blog is another example. I mostly write just to write. But it has the secondary effect of making it more likely that I could express these opinions more eloquently later. The forever goal is something like: to organize my thoughts. This blog has also led to serendipitous opportunities, and I would always want that. I would also say that cooking is…