Tommi Brander I think I’m thinking about motives and desires as much as anything else. But you’re right, it’s not perfectly aligned.

I-want-what-I-want is sort of orthogonal to all the rest of it because obvs it happens via the other positions. And “want” is pretty fuzzy of course. I could totally see an argument that strictly truthful, consistent, principled character-driven play that you work hard to maintain is a kind of tactical play.

So probably what I really mean is I-want-to-WIN. Because if I make the bucket big enough, literally everything everyone does at any time is what they want (leaving aside the notion that our creations feel like they have wills of their own sometimes, or that truth and momentum demands outcomes we don’t want, even when we’ve got broad-ranging authority).