I just finished reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. The book has been recommended to me many, many times in the few years since its publication. However, it wasn’t until my friend, Lauren, said it might be her favorite book of all time that I actually purchased a copy and read the thing.

Wow. This is an outstanding book.

Beyond telling you that I think you should most definitely read it, if you have not already, which I know many of you have, I’m not going to say too much about it. I want to talk about the actual playing of games and the making of work.

Towards the end of the novel the protagonist, Sadie Green, addresses her Advance Games seminar, “If you’re always aiming for perfection, you won’t make anything at all…We’d be playing Super Mario, and if we missed even one gold coin, or got hit by one Koopa, we’d begin again.” Essentially, if you play in this way - to get every gold coin to avoid every Koopa, though I do not know what one is, you will litera…