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We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast… The Friday Finds (implicitly ‘five’ Friday finds), are usually a collection of interesting things I’ve read, watched, or stumbled across over the past week. I’m going to do something different with this week’s Friday Finds, and focus on several recent finds
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“Better Living Through Algorithms” Wow. This short story—“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer—would be a great piece to discuss as a group. I previously mentioned I had read the book All the Birds in the Sky; it also has a similar sub-plot, that of an app everyone
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Facilitator card decks Roundup alert! So I did a thing… I searched for the hashtag ‘CardDecks’ on LinkedIn, and discovered a bunch of posts by Rachel Davis, including this ”list of card decks” (which “has both decks you can purchase and ones you can download for free.”) Drivers of change
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A forecasting game… from the 1960s? Here’s a fascinating look at the game of Future, “the first notable attempt to engage civilians in the mechanics and social interaction of future forecasting.” For whatever ill-informed and unexamined reasons, I was surprised (but shouldn’t have been) to discover a forecasting
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The A.I. Dilemma [March 9, 2023] Damn. Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin give a somber—and sobering—look at “how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society.” This goes beyond a host of other concerns that have already been raised (see screenshot below) to
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Helsinki Old news (2019), but… A card game played by residents in Helsinki as part of a “participatory budgeting” exercise: “How a card game can help city residents suggest new ideas.” Sadly, the links to download the game no longer appear to be working. 😢 (But, the article describing the game
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Cozy Juicy Real A few months back, I mentioned playing the Cozy Juicy Real game at an online event. If you're looking to “create unforgettable conversations that make people feel connected, seen and alive,” then check out the game on the Kickstarter. It was an instant back for
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A lot of my week was spent reading stuff related to ChapGPT (mostly due to zeitgeist, but also…) in preparation for a short talk I gave on Tuesday. Anyway… I can’t share a new card deck every week, right? A model for LLM I’ve been trying to make
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Security games Where's the emoji for ✨gOLd✨mInE?✨! Here's a page maintained by Adam Shostack “a leading expert on threat modeling” that lists a bunch of security related card games. And… via this thread (which led me to the link above) are more such games, including
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TDD Game Here's a new (in development) board game, created to teach… 🥁Test Driven Development! From the description: Play JitterTed's TDD Game where you try to get the most code committed without bugs! Based on the Predictive Test-Driven Development process, you decide whether to take on
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Reading - Writing - Thinking While aimed at academics, I love this simple model, showing ”3 signs your research is out of balance.” Check out the explanation in this Twitter thread. Good Questions “Good questions change both the questioner and the listener” writes Andrea Mignolo. I love her straightforward advice
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The Estuarine Framework Attention complexity nerds! Here's a detailed walkthrough of a 3-day workshop and use of a new method from Dave Snowden (Cynefin), the Estuarine Framework: In the Estuarine Framework we use metaphors to come at the situation obliquely and increase the range of perspectives we view