[cptcobalt]

> and linked to your sensitivity to certain brain chemistry.

Yeah, I align with this—I've probably spent a lifetime tuning myself for this.

I present to execs at work frequently and own too many projects for my own good. Peers have asked how I handle the stress..and I don't think I explicitly see or feel it as "stress". I think it's actually that I chase the high of the risk/reward response, and I'm willing to feel the pressure of the "risk" to see something through to the reward.

My second favorite game genre is the management/builder/strategy genre — it's just second because there's not enough of them. I've been playing them all my life, from Civ II on my first PC as a kid, and onward. I think they've kinda trained me for this. These games now feel like a walk in the park, even if I take a weird risk and lose—but as a kid the losses were crushing.

Strategy/4X/Builder/Management games feel like a bit of the same feedback loop, just different nouns and verbs from the day-to-day.