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What are some gaming skills that could translate to real life? (lemmy.world)

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My job role is a Technical Lead. When researching some cloud technologies for adoption I came across the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Landscape web page which lists all cloud technologies that come under their umbrella.

The sheer number and variety of them made me realise that perhaps players of games like Magic The Gathering or Dota would probably feel right at home when designing cloud applications since the job involves identifying apps that synergize with each other and min-maxing their costs.

So I was curious if there were more such examples where gaming skill could translate well to real life jobs?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Not video games, but go/baduk taught me a lot about many things:

the value of failure with review for learning
the value of cycling between theory and practice for learning
approaches to pattern recognition, or at least how to apply already recognised patterns (this is more or less all of thinking, IMO)
reinforced my understanding of the ability of simple systems to produce very complex outcomes and emergent behaviour

I'm a scientist, so these are all relevant to my work, but I've also used some of them in my personal life.

More generally, C. This Nguyen frames games as "the art of agency" (where music is the art of sound, etc.). His observations of games are amazing and relevant to anyone working in a bureaucracy. An excellent intro to his work is his episode on Ezra Klein's podcast. Well worth a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-a-life-changing-philosophy-of-games/id1548604447?i=1000576579207