On a Saturday morning in May 2017, my wife, my daughters, and I piled into the car and headed to Turpan, a nearby city, to relax for the weekend. The winter cold still hadn’t left Urumqi, and we were hoping a couple of days enjoying the warm spring weather in Turpan would be good for us.
On long car trips, we usually passed the time with conversation. But it was hard to talk about anything besides what was happening.
The Chinese government’s mass internment of Uyghurs was in full swing.
Snippets
When I played football, I played for my family. When I scored, I scored for my family.
So when my father died, football was never the same.
- Adriano, Adriano Has A Story to Tell
Finite games are played to win or lose. Infinite games are played to keep the game going.
Seek out infinite games because they yield infinite rewards.
- Kevin Kelly, 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
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