Stephen P. Anderson

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№ 33 | A Card Game for Participatory Budgeting, A Little Wordy, 20 Blog Post Formats, A Skill Tree for 3D Printing & Modeling, 8 Alternatives to ’How Are You?‘, and How Asynchronous Work Can Fuel Creativity

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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№ 32 | Cozy Juicy Real, Simple Explanations, 6 Fundamental Beliefs Behind Biases, The PAUSE (Visualization) Framework, and 5 Tech Trends That AREN'T CHatGPT

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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№ 31 | A Model for Discussing LLM, Scaling Issues with LLM, AI Governance, Wonder & Awe, and Lessons from Disneyland

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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№ 30 | Security Games, Defining Intelligence & Iteration, Rapoport’s Rules, and the Decider App

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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№ 29 | TDD Cards, Centered vs Connected, Knowledge Operations, Kind Games, and (Not) Avoiding Why

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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№ 28 | Reading-Writing-Thinking, Good Questions, Teamwords, Creative Dying, and 500+ ChatGPT Prompts

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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№ 27 | The Estuarine Framework, Values, The Perils of LLM, A RACI Alternative, and Capping a Meeting

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

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№ 26 | Making a Game Out of Chores, Meeting… to Think Together, Liberals and Conservatives, D&D and SEL

A card game for household chores? How is this for an opening title and subtitle: “I Played a Card Game With My Fiancé to See Who Does the Most Housework… It didn’t go according to plan”. It's a card game… for household chores! Hmm. I'm

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№ 25 | 3 Pathways to Purpose, Cultural Types (Lewis Model), an Amazing Bit of Graphic Visualization, Seriousness & Playfulness, and Type 2 Fun!

Nurturing your purpose I caught the tail end of this Hidden Brain episode, but what I heard has been rattling around in my head ever since. It's an episode devoted to Cultivating Your Purpose (with an emphasis on cultivating versus discovering). What stuck with me was the labeling

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№ 24 | Games for a Cause, Virtual Ice Breakers, Using GPT3 to Generate HMW Statements, Design Principles for Streets, and Games in the Classroom

Games for a Cause! So… a few months ago, I shared the Beautiful Trouble Strategy Card Deck. What I didn’t pause to do was look at the OTHER stuff offered by The TESA Collective (I should have paid more attention: TESA = The Toolbox for Eduction and Social Action 🤦‍♂️). Anyway,

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№ 23 | Beyond Developed / Developing, System 3 Thinking, Against Finding Your Niche, 5 Competencies for Crisis Leadership, and Different Levels of No

Topics are a wee bit more heady this week… Fewer pictures! 🤪 Beyond developed / developing Here’s an interesting request: Kate Raworth (author of Donut Economics—is seeking input on 4 labels. “To get beyond erroneous ‘developed / developing’ countries, we’re proposing new country clusters, in terms of their journey towards

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№ 22 | Digital Therapy, The Compatibility Game, Responsible Tech, Violent Language, and the ‘ASAP + Agree’ Communication Framework

Digital Therapy While it's only a concept (?), there's a lot to like about this digital therapy project (designed for patients with psychosis). There's the design of the app, the evidence-based approach to therapy, and—of course—the accompanying physical cards. More detailed information and