Stephen P. Anderson

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№ 4 | Contrasts and Meaningful Distinctions, Engagement, Explaining Ontology and Epistemology, Patterns in Choice-Based Games, and Text to Image Generation

Contrasts and meaningful distinctions 🤩 A co-worker shared this brilliant list of critical distinctions, gathered by Frank Chimero over the past few years. [No direct source, as I believe this was from a private newsletter?] Here's the snippet:  The pandemic has given me a cynical distance to professional language—

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№ 3 | Seven Frameworks for Telling Stories, “Pre-Bunking,” Make It Toolkit, Warmspace, and Shared Standards for the Metaverse.

Seven frameworks for telling stories Not one, but SEVEN storytelling threads to jumpstart your storytelling skills. I like these kinds of high signal to noise tweet threads. And I like seeing multiple frameworks held up alongside each other. Enjoy! “Pre-Bunking” A proven way to stop online misinformation? So basically, if

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№ 2 | Design + Architecture Processes, Multisensory Perception and Architecture, “The Case Against Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Education,” Learning Styles, and Clever Ways to Connect with Others

Is this how designers work? I posted this on twitter, and a just few people 😲 found it interesting. Speaking of architecture, one of my co-workers shared this next piece with me: Multisensory perception and architecture. Here's your weekly (!? 🤨) dose of academic literature: "Senses of place: architectural design

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№ 1 | Conversation Theory, Civilizations + Burnout, Practical Teaching Tips, Visualizing Knowledge, and AR Contact Lenses

Let's get this kicked off… five things I encountered over the past week: “Conversation theory in two pages.” AKA, I can't escape cybernetics! In response to a post about project constraints, twitter user @evansonearth shared this short essay on Cybernetics and Conversation. Sample 1: “Consensual coordination