World of Code: Stories, Games, Identity, and Parallel Universes

I had a lot of fun with this one—and, I could very easily keep on having fun with it indefinitely… which I may well do (well, maybe not indefinitely!) in future episodes. Given my own very personal investment in the content of this episode, I was disappointed with my first draft and was actually hoping to re-shoot more of it—but there’s also a dynamism to this first engagement with the content and ideas here that turns out to be delicate enough that I thought better of disturbing it too much. So I restricted myself to tightening up the intro and fixing a minor historical error that I’d inadvertently introduced, and I’ve left the rest largely as-is, with the intention of returning to the conversation that I’ve started here and elaborating further on some of these thoughts and ideas in future. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!