{"id":30999,"date":"2011-06-06T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-i-was-in-high-school-nothing-gave-me-greater-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-06T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T12:00:06","slug":"when-i-was-in-high-school-nothing-gave-me-greater-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-i-was-in-high-school-nothing-gave-me-greater-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I was in high school, nothing gave me greater joy than computer games. It was part of how I grew up. Maybe it\u2019s because I grew up in the video game era, but I\u2019ve never beaten myself up about mistakes. When I try something and it doesn\u2019t turn out, I go back and try it again. Most of the time when you\u2019re playing a game, you\u2019re losing. You lose and lose and lose until you beat it. That\u2019s kind of how the game works, right? It\u2019s feedback. And then eventually you beat it. As it turns out, the most fun parts of a game are when you\u2019re losing. When you finally beat it there\u2019s a moment of euphoria but then it\u2019s over. Maybe it\u2019s because I grew up in that generation, I have the ability to take chances, which leads to the ability to innovate and try new things. Those are important life lessons that came along.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/06\/business\/06corner.html?pagewanted=2&amp;sq=nvidia&amp;st=Search&amp;scp=2\">Corner Office &#8211; Nvidia\u2019s Chief Is Ready for Adversity &#8211; He Waited Tables &#8211; Interview &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/clivethompson.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">clivethompson<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school, nothing gave me greater joy than computer games. It was part of how I grew up. Maybe it\u2019s because I grew up in the video game era, but I\u2019ve never beaten myself up about mistakes. When I try something and it doesn\u2019t turn out, I go back and try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-83Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}