We All Are Playing Squid Game With One Exception
(2 min read) What Squid Game and Engineering have in common.
Note: No spoilers are shared in this post.
Netflix's Squid Game is the rage right now. Not a new concept but just a new presentation. It's a great series, and I highly recommend watching it.
The storyline is similar to other movies like hunger games, where the system is playing people. The winner gets the glory, and the losers perish.
When watching these kinds of movies/series, I always think that it's good that this is just fictional because if it were a reality, I would be dead—not realizing that we all are in a real-life squid game with one exception.
We all play squid games every day.
In engineering, some squid games are apparent. Engineers going the promotion is a common one. The one that crosses the finish line is happy, and the one that doesn't is sad. The same is true with other things such as interviews, projects, startups, headcount requests, project proposals, etc.
However, there is one exception to squid games we play in real life. That is, we get to retry multiple times when we don't cross the finish line. And while that is not as dramatic as the series, it's a crucial difference.
Imagine being only getting one chance to interview or promotion or building project or asking for headcount etc. That would be brutal.
To win at squid games, we must stay persistent and retry. There will be many failures before success.
Also, remember that we can stop playing for a while and resume when we feel like it.
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