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Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse ISBN 0345341848
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James Carse ISBN 0345341848
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This book by James Carse has come up 3 times on Tim Ferriss. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-10-16 and the most recent from 2025-11-05. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life, the games we play in business and politics, in the bedroom and on the battlefield, games with winners and losers, a beginning and an end. Infinite games are the more mysterious, and ultimately more rewarding. They are unscripted and unpredictable; they are the source of true freedom. -- from the back cover of the 1986 edition.
“The original finite and infinite games, I believe is Carse. Yeah, that's the one, the original. And so that that one really got me into thinking”— Tim Ferriss
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“people can check out finite and infinite games by cars as is also a good meditation on a lot of this stuff”— Tim Ferriss
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“finite and infinite games by james carso's an interesting read and i just want to close with”— Tim Ferriss
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