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The Orthogonal Bet by Lux Capital
@OrthogonalBet
Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, a podcast by @Lux_Capital that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.
Joined November 2025
- Most game studios ask for your résumé. Will Wright asked you to define every possible intelligent civilization in 10 variables. Would you pass the Will Wright test? @cgingold
- SimCity only happened because the late ’80s were a weird doorway, fractals, chaos, simulations were spilling from Scientific American into pop culture. Could a “science-to-mass-audience” game studio even break through now? @cgingold
- Games aren’t really about playing... they’re about making. The all-timers (SimCity → Minecraft → Roblox) win because they turn players into creators. If a game doesn’t let you build or mod, is it already obsolete? - @cgingold
- SimCity isn’t a “lone genius” story. Will Wright built the sim—but without Jeff Braun turning a weird shelved prototype into a mass-market product and the team polishing the Mac version, there’s no SimCity. -@cgingold
