I absolutely loved this piece by Cedric Chin about games and their metagames. Fascinating stuff to think about.

Every sufficiently interesting game has a metagame above it. This is the game about the game. It is often called ‘the meta’.

I’m a fan of games (who isn’t?), and every game I’ve ever really gotten obsessed with has had an even more interesting meta. Oh, and if you’re looking for some kind of a direct link to software development, here you go:

My closest cousin is a software engineer. Recently, his frontend engineering team hired a former musician: someone who had switched from piano to JavaScript programming with the help of a bootcamp. He noticed immediately that her pursuit of skills (and the questions she asked) were sharper and more focused than the other engineers he had hired. He thought her prior experience with climbing the skill tree of music had something to do with it.