[randall]

A completely arbitrary related concept: I'm much better at running my startup now than before I played StarCraft seriously.

StarCraft made me a more strategic thinker and it's why I think it might not surprise people that Emmett Shear (ceo of twitch) is really good at StarCraft.

I played casually in the early days, but a few years back I wanted to get decent enough to play online regularly, and it changed our company for the better.

[summarite]

Is it your skill at StarCraft, or could it be that you developed strategies for learning, resilience, etc while trying get better, and those are the actual success factors?

[randall]

Conceptual stretching is my guess. More strategy than normal for me.

[brianwawok]

Do you micro the workers or focus on the macro game?

[randall]

Macro