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[Video] Beyond the Hero’s Journey One of my many side interests is how stories work. To that end, this talk on character arcs has been playing over in my head for a few weeks now. It feels like a great way to think about narratives, in a way that’
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Low Carbon Lifestyle Cards I’m wary of climate action strategies that try to shift the burden to individuals, when so much of the cause is systemic, economic, power structures (See “What we are up against”). But, that doesn’t mean there aren’t actions that we—as individuals—can
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GenAI Card Deck If you must bring Generative AI into your work, here’s a card game that’ll quickly get everyone up to speed on core concepts while exploring what Gen AI can do. While this is fundamentally a structured brainstorming tool, with cards for kind of input, output,
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Queueing strategies Thanks to this interactive study of queueing strategies from Sam Rose, I now understand the programming concept of queueing. The post uses a series of highly interactive visuals and micro-challenges that demystify why HTTP requests sometimes fail—and different queuing strategies to help prevent these failures. This is
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MANIFESTO! MANIFESTO! is a card game “for stimulating and supporting manifesto authoring.” I’m intrigued! And as it happens… 🥁 Julian Hanna—one of the co-creators of the MANIFESTO!—will be presenting at the next Cardstock meetup on May 24th. If this sounds fascinating, then in addition to the card deck
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Hexi™ for Scrum Why is that hexagon-based toolkits (and games!) are so darn appealing?! There’s a good explanation buried in this video introduction to the newest Hexi™ for Scrum kit from the Cynefin Company. Hexi™ is a new approach using physical artifacts designed to consolidate methods, approaches, tools and
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Ace of Aces A few months ago, I shared a video about Edge-notched cards, a kind of queryable database...made of paper! Keeping with the theme of a paper computer, here’s a brilliant analysis of Ace of Aces, a “Choose Your Own Adventure first-person shooter from 1980… [that] involves
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Models All The Way Down Stop what you’re doing. Set aside 15 minutes (maybe more?) and “read” through all of this bit of investigative journalism. Models All The Way Down is THE clearest explanation I’ve come across to explain what happens behind the scenes with AI models used
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Diary of a CEO Conversation Cards So… another deck of conversation starters. What’s the twist that makes this card deck interesting? The questions in Diary of a CEO Conversation Cards were born out of The Diary of a CEO podcast, where host Steven Bartlett has “each guest answer a
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📣One last reminder… It's not too late to join in the “Make A Zine!” Challenge (hint, you should!). If the word zine stops you, then think about it this way—this is a great exercise to: * Force clarity on a complex topic * Beta test a book concept * Geek
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This week’s roundup of ‘playful✨ things to think with’ all have an oddly homegrown analog quality to them… After the first two ‘finds’ kind of locked into place, I decided to run with this quasi-craftsy theme! 📣It's not too late to join in the “Make A Zine!
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Ready for another Creative Challenge? This time, the challenge is to… 🥁 ✨Make A Zine!✨ ✨If that's all the convincing you needed, yay! Here are the details on how to participate. Otherwise, read on… I'll try my best to convince you this is a brilliant idea you