Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Playing an online bridge game from start to finish can be compared to working from home as a full-time freelancer. The moment it’s time to sit down and focus, a hundred-and-one different distractions fall out of the sky. Phones ring, important deliveries arrive, animals bark, and sometimes food might fuse to the pot unattended while…

If there’s one thing that I have learned about board games and life that should be passed on to others, it would be that assumptions are a dangerous thing. When we assume things, we take a leap of faith into the depths of thinking that we’re smarter than the next person. An assumption is rarely…

Marc Smith visits the mini Alt Swiss Teams Last week, we saw the action from the early matches of the mini Alt Swiss Teams. After four of the twelve matches, the leaderboard looked like this: ZHAO  64.00 VPs MOSS  52.42 GUPTA   46.69 THE BOYS    49.49 AMATEURS   48.09 QUARANTEAM  47.37 RIPPEY  45.96 We return now for…