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.

You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?

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

You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's the thing where you get to do whatever you come up with in your own mind, all bets are off, there's no boundaries.

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.

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.

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.