One of the things I want to do on Bending Pink Steel is reverse engineer the “ordered thinking” of others.

By that, I mean how did the thinking patterns of well-known people enable their success or lead to their downfall (and sometimes both). We’re actually going to spend the rest of 2024 on this task in a more structured way—so keep an eye out!

But today, I wanted to use the series gap to pull ideas from one of the best books I read all year: Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Ente...