Trolling For Newbies Game

Trolling For Newbies Game shows what happens when everyone's best move collides with everyone else's. The result is rarely the best result.

The lesson of the game is that your move is never just your move. It changes what others will do next, which changes what your move was worth. Thinking one round deeper is the entire advantage.

Watch the Mumbai local at 8:47 a.m. Nobody in that compartment is lazy. Yet by evening, half the day's resolve has leaked out through small negotiations: one more chai, one more scroll, one more tomorrow.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. The idea has done its job if, the next time it happens to you, you smile before you react.