The Score: A Conversation with C. Thi Nguyen

​​Join us for an in person book launch party with C. Thi Nguyen, cohosted by Reboot, the Cognitive Security Task Force and Bloomberg Beta in San Francisco.

​​We'll be discussing C. Thi Nguyen’s new book, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game.

​When your friend moves to SF just to "check it out," then suddenly desires to Be a Founder, are you surprised? It's no secret that the social environments we're in shape what we want, but we're often unaware of how much they change us into someone we never thought we'd become.

​In his new book, philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, one of the world's leading experts on the philosophy of games, takes us deep into the heart of game design: scoring systems. In a scintillating analysis of scoring systems across games, bureaucracies, and ranking institutions, he illuminates how scoring systems shape not just what we desire, but what we value. 

​Join us in San Francisco for an in-person book launch with C. Thi Nguyen, cohosted by Bloomberg Beta, on May 13 at 6:00PM. We’ll be discussing Thi's new book, The Score, and interrogating whether the games in our own lives are the ones we want to be playing.

​📚 We will also give a limited number of copies of the book to our invitees who attend, first come, first serve.

​Doors will close at 6:30 PM.

​​About the author

​C. Thi Nguyen is a philosopher and professor at the University of Utah, where he specializes in the philosophy of games, agency, and the ways social systems shape our values. His work explores how structures like scoring systems, metrics, and incentives influence what we choose to care about. Nguyen’s writing has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Aeon, and he is widely recognized for making complex philosophical ideas accessible and relevant to everyday life.

​​About Reboot

​Reboot (joinreboot.org) is a community and publication for and by technologists thinking critically about technology, culture, and the future

​About the Cognitive Security Task Force

​The Cognitive Security Task Force (cstf.dev) is a working group researching and developing solutions to cognitive operations enabled by emerging technologies.

​​About Bloomberg Beta

​Bloomberg Beta is a seed fund focused on investing in the future of work.