Working at My Game Table

A Friend asked me, “What are you doing this week?”

I sent them this photo of my game table where I have been sitting for the last 120 hours working on my new card class power point.

“120 hours?” They asked in disbelief.

This particular friend does not play mah Jongg. (I know, how can I be friends with someone who does not play. Well, I am married to someone who does not play, so…)

I went on, “those hours do not include all the hours I have been playing to gather data.”

“How is playing gathering data?”

This friend obviously is not an analytical person. I told her that I like to play 1,000 games to figure out how to teach people what it’s important and what is not.

“I have played over 800 games so far. So I can work on my power point, but not make my final conclusions until I get to 1,000.”

“Why don’t you just use AI?”

“I would not learn everything well enough to teach it without notes if I had the computer do the analysis. I did see an AI generated analysis that someone sent me. It had many mistakes. A person published it, but did not understand the information well enough to catch all the mistakes.”

“This is why it takes years for playing and teaching to become proficient. It is one thing to understand the game well enough to play it, completely a different thing to understand it well enough to to teach and still a whole different level to teach it well.”

I work for hard to be able to teach it well, but even after 28 years am constantly learning and developing better ways.