module 6
Games and Sport
Games and sport as social scaffolding — board game night, pickleball, backyard volleyball, and managing the competitive.
10 articles
- 1
Games as social scaffolding
You don't have to be charming to host well. You just have to give people something to do with their hands.
- 2
Board game night, set up right
The game matters less than the table you put it on.
- 3
Card games worth learning
A deck of cards is the cheapest, quietest hosting tool you will ever own — and most of us never learned how to use it.
- 4
Backyard volleyball
The net is the only invitation you need to give.
- 5
Pick-up sports without the ego
A game where everyone's managing how they look isn't a game. It's an audition.
- 6
Pickleball and the low barrier
The best invitation is the one where being bad at it is part of the fun.
- 7
Bocce, cornhole, horseshoes
The best party games are the ones that leave your mouth free to talk and your feet free to move.
- 8
Competitive people, managed
A night doesn't fall apart when someone wants to win. It falls apart when nobody said what the night was for.
- 9
Teaching a game without lecturing
The rules aren't the game. The game is the game — and your job is to get people into it as fast as you can.
- 10
When there are kids in the mix
A child at the edge of the table isn't the evening falling apart — it's the evening beginning.
