Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.

Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than the clothes in the laundry basket or the dishes in the sink. It's more a matter of the attention you're willing to bring to them, where you're willing to allow meaning and pleasure and the light to escape.

The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.