Best of Design Matters: C. Thi Nguyen
Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: C. Thi Nguyen

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 31, 20261 hr 11 min

C. Thi Nguyen—philosopher, professor, and author of Games: Agency as Art—joins to discuss his new book, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game, and how metrics, from grades to likes, quietly reshape what we value and who we become. Together, they explore games as “libraries of agency,” the allure of scoring systems, and the vital question: Is this the game you really want to be playing? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode of Design Matters originally appeared in February of 2026. The faculty are going to say, I love this game, I want to play it. Why? Because I don't know,

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it's got weird deep social vibes, I can't say more. Right? That's permissible and you can modify games. From the TED Audio Collective,

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this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. On Design Matters Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

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