If you understand the other games out there, you may find you are playing the wrong one. Hard to decide that if you don't know all the games.
It seems easier to personally define what one thinks winning is, and then evaluate (and modify if possible) the games we come across.
Even smaller, more incremental experiments can be difficult to imagine. eg. beyond a multitool, smartphone, and computer, what additional things have high value? The multitool has high unexpected utility in that I would have predicted near zero and I now use it all the time. So it's likely that I am blind to other possible improvements.