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Future scenarios, inspired by videogames They took your garbage can away today. Your recycling bin too. All that’s left is the compost bin. Neighbors are standing at the curb watching the trucks drive off, looking a bit in shock. It sounded impossible when the federal government first announced it
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Board Games for Change ‘And the nominees are…’ Games for Change, known for recognizing video games with a social impact, has added a new category recognizing…wait for it… board games!! 🎉 Check out this article from Polygon for more about each of the four nominees. Oh, and can I brag
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Guidelines for human-AI interaction I kind of like these Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction from Microsoft. As they're context-based—mapping to stages of an interaction—they're easy to use as a kind of checklist or assessment for any AI projects in-development or recently launched. Ethics of Influence
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Hexaflexagons! Mind. Blown. 🤯 Drop what you’re doing and watch these two videos about hexaflexagons: 1. Hexaflexagons 2. Hexaflexagons 2 The video format is wildly entertaining, as is the subject matter. And a bit of history to boot! There’s also a bit in part 2 where ‘Feynman’ insists on
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Multiversal appeal I love essays like this that can step back, normally a few decades after the fact, and make cultural observations as to why something got into our collective psyche. Anyway, here’s a commentary on “How the multiverse got into our heads and didn’t let go.” If
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Tools for thought: the first 300,000 years So, I have this workshop exercise where I ask people to think about all the ways we, as human creatures, have extended our thinking through new technologies; this includes everything from carved symbols on cave walls to the addition of page numbers
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A team topologies talk and toolkit [Say that quickly 3 times!] The Team Topologies book has been on my to get list for some time—and I think this presentation just gave me the nudge I needed. The focus of this talk is how everything written about in the 2019
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So. Many. Open. Tabs. But, I've also had a heck of a week—emotionally draining and all. Which means… I'm sharing only those things that were easy to scan; there's nothing here that requires hours of sustained, focused attention! 😂 Good? Bad? It is what
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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