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Comment by jamesdeer | Hacker News Reader

I used to lead Counter Strike 1.6 teams in my teens- I often reflect on how that was some of my early leadership "training".

Good memories of motivating my teams of 15/16/17 year olds to get online at 6/7am in the morning to work on our skills before school, and for epic days during the summer.

Ah, simpler times.

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I used to GM some pen and paper RPGs with a team of adorable and mischevious players. It taught me to be paranoid about every little flaw or loophole in rules. "Can my 'create water' spell work to flood this bad guy's heart?"

I think to prevent tax evasion, tax law should be written by people with 5+ years of GMing experience...

Then you'll need to finish 100 quests and slain a dragon to report your taxes each year? :)

He said pen and paper RPGs, not computer ones. :-)

Who said you can’t do that with pen and paper?

> tax law should be written by people with 5+ years of GMing experience...

They do, except they're employed by the people who want to put the loopholes in.

The trick to avoiding loopholes is not to find and plug them one by one, but to ruthlessly simplify.

Same here. Teaches you a lot about toxicity and how being constantly positive can make a difference short term as well as long term.

It took me so long in life to realize that. With myself and with others. Aiming to be 'well balanced' is just not enough.

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