I decided to head out for the evening instead of playing MTG Arena like I have been doing. I am currently at Platinum 4 Constructed Rank and Gold 4 Limited Rank. You can play the game just for fun but there are opportunities to play it in a ranked way. Really, it is not that much of an accomplishment because there are 2 main age-old methods of ascension, either you put in the time or you put in the money and statistically it is almost impossible to fast track. As far as latitude for strategy, the game is a lot more fun than chess though. There are a few hundred things that you must keep in mind during play. You can almost quantitate them and I am sure many do, mostly in-house developers though. ok.
At this time I prefer not to hint at how much time I have put into this game. Let’s just say, it rivals the average yippie yuppie gen-zy Netflix consumption. I did manage to get powder-puff, kid-glove recertified in Advanced Google Analytics last weekend so I guess I do more than just play that game. I slam the certification because I know when I have walked away from something and felt like I have learned it. In this case, I am not using all aspects that i am studying so I don’t feel like I have learned it as well as I could have. This isn’t really their fault, I just want practical value for everything I learn. I am forever attention frugal in that sense.
I just started the audiobook of Google’s origin. I was pleasantly surprised at the writing in the beginning but I do not need to learn how to create a company at this time. I tried that before and I misunderstood tactics of competition. Now, it is about 20-25 years later and the only patience I have for running a company would be to operate like Michael Douglas in Wall Street. I cannot say enough how great both the Wall Street movies are. Maybe someday I will throw in my 2 cents on them.
I do plan to finish the audiobook. I am just being a little ciritical of the first part of it. My recent audiobooks have been pretty good, actually. I have dipped into tea trade history by Sarah Rose, and the exciting natural world by David Attenborough. I had to move over to “How Google Works” because my library loan of “Main Street” by Sinclair Lewis expired and all the copies were out. I will definitely go back to it because it was pretty good.
