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Luke Gibson
@lukegibson.bsky.social
COO at Playmint, making decentralised composable games. Previously Epic / Mediatonic. Director at Into Games. Consulting the Tavi way. Opinions not my own.
a therapist called Bion once claimed that "the purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire"

it's similar to what Freud called hovering attention, or alert passivity, and modern psychoanalysts call 'evenly suspended attention'

something I'll spend my life trying to get better at
June 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
everyone should read this, tho tbh, you might have read it already
qntm.org qntm @qntm.org · May 6
We have advance copies!

The actual book will be hardcover of course, and it will also have quite a few fixed typos 😎

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...
May 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
i’m heavily into my marble race era right now… if anyone has opinions about marble races (irl or digital) lmk 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣
May 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If you’re going to have a midlife crisis, you should at least try to make it generative rather than consumptive
March 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This really is just like being on your phone… although if I’m honest it was slightly less dissociative and more entertaining than normal. Other than that would highly recommend.
Released a game yesterday!

It is as if you were on your phone

pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-...
(For phones only)

Let me know what you think!
March 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
reciprocals are really useful, especially when someone sends you a screenshot of a KPI showing a big % change and you're curious what it was before, then you remember reciprocals are really simple but feel like magic, and this is the kind of thing you should do in the evenings to relax
February 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
it’s funny to think about, but vitality comes from desire, and desire really does function like a carrot on a stick… the ideal carrot is something that remains fresh and out of reach… you don’t want it to go stale, or worse, actually eat it
January 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I kicked off 2025 by closing 1432 tabs (even I was a bit surprised), and removing 194 apps from my phone, 18 of which don’t even work anymore.
January 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
One of my unpopular opinions is that you should live your life in service of others, and the biggest threats to your wellbeing are over-indexing on self-care, benchmarking yourself against the global elite, and failing to recognise algorithms as paperclip maximisers
December 18, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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December 17, 2024 at 6:56 PM
tfw your work focuses on decentralisation and your government drops a white paper on it 👀

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/676028...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
December 17, 2024 at 7:44 AM
hanging out with 9yo and her chosen activities are kawaii christmas doodles (you can see mine below) and building a Mayan afterlife in minecraft, next up is Hades 👀
December 1, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Realised today I joined bsky when it was 3 orders of magnitude smaller.

Old enough to remember the hellthread and how impressed i was with @berduck.deepfates.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Very excited for this!

Deal with decision fatigue and support social mobility by playing games at the same time as your friends!

I love the idea of community game passes, and proud of the @intogames.bsky.social team for making it happen.
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November 29, 2024 at 5:58 PM
I’m thankful that a place like this exists… that the bluesky team believed in this enough to build it, that they continue to articulate their intent so well, and that people are remembering social media can be a place where creativity and positivity can flourish (if you choose!)
I’m thankful for everyone using Bluesky, everyone building on atproto, everyone listening to our message and sharing our dream of a better social media ecosystem that puts people first. We’re going to do this together — thanks for joining us on this journey!
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 AM
this is very funny… even as someone committed to the importance of decentralisation I still feel the flinch haha
here comes the airplane
November 28, 2024 at 9:53 AM
It’s pretty clear that this place is already a lot more useful than X.

That makes me a little sad… twitter had a massive positive influence on my life and there’s a huge amount of value there that people are willing to see burn because they dislike Musk.

Hopefully this place will be different! 👀
November 28, 2024 at 9:34 AM
We need to talk about Misty!

(the most *wonderfully* frustrating card in pokemon tcg pocket and latest contributor to the randomness-in-game-design discourse)
November 27, 2024 at 12:56 PM
It is possible to make cool things, still
July 17, 2023 at 8:30 AM