The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game by C. Thi Nguyen is a brilliant, urgent work of philosophy and sociology that builds directly on the ideas of his previous book, Games: Agency as Art. It explores how the modern world has weaponized our natural love for games and turned it into a rigid, life-draining tracking system.
Nguyen investigates “gamification” the trend of institutions, corporations, and social media platforms applying scoring systems, leaderboards, and numerical metrics to our everyday lives. Whether it is tracking the exact number of steps on a fitness watch, chasing “likes” on social media, managing an online storefront’s star ratings, or obsessing over a university GPA, we are constantly being encouraged to reduce our human experience to countable numbers.
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