Penny Arcade posted about their business person negotiating nuclear disarmament in class. Kiko's strategy was to show them a fake, "See I disarmed," while holding onto the real one. And people fell for that, and he won.

So we reward that thinking in reality, of awareness of things, and how to get the goal, and while our board games have complex mechanics and people who live and breathe gameplay and testing, the minutiae of business concepts are eye-glazing afterwords.

How do we bridge that gap; and I'm not only referring to hobbyists. What kind of cognitive disruption gets us to address avidya:

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The "enemy" is avidya, which literally means "un-seeing." Avidya is motivated refusal to engage accurately with actuality.

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