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

Stephen P. Anderson

Stephen P. Anderson

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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 you prime people with 90 second doses of micro-learning on a particular bias or critical thinking topic, they're less likely to fall for misinformation. Ok. Sounds great. Let's scale this. (And while we're at it… maybe people could bother to learn some critical thinking skills so we don't need these kinds of just-in-time intercepts?! Sorry, feeling a bit snarky today. 😬)

Make It Toolkit

Behavioral science and game thinking? Ok, I'm in! The Make It Toolkit shares 200+ techniques clustered into 15 "design strategies"— things like make it easy, make it empowering, make it immersive, and so on… Bonus:  They look like cards. 😍

Warmspace

Has anyone tried Warmspace?  It looks like a video tool with just enough scaffolding to encourage deep connection between people… 🤔

Shared standards for the Metaverse?

Could Universal Scene Description (USD) be the fundamental standard needed to create the metaverse? It's still very early, but… Something like this is certainly needed:  NVIDIA Explains Why it Believes USD is the "HTML of the metaverse"

***BONUS: In advance of Tuesday's next Apple event, here's a fun little site that lets YOU design the iPhone of your dreams. Copter blades and all.

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№ 93 | Illustrating Complex Systems, Moving Motivators Cards, Working with Team Values, The Eudaimonia Machine, Role-Playing an LLM, Froebel’s Gifts, Senseless Interfaces, and Ojisan Trading Cards

№ 93 | Illustrating Complex Systems, Moving Motivators Cards, Working with Team Values, The Eudaimonia Machine, Role-Playing an LLM, Froebel’s Gifts, Senseless Interfaces, and Ojisan Trading Cards

It’s another issue of the Thinking Things newsletter 🎉 .This time, with a few more than usual playful ‘things to think with’ and think about… Enjoy! 30 Illustrated Frameworks for Complex Problems I tend to shy away from sharing “roundup” sites, and focus more on singular tools, things, methods, games,

By Stephen P. Anderson
№ 92 | Ask This Book A Question, Jackdaw Folders, The Wizards & Workshops Deck, NOISE Analysis + SOLVED Cards, “How Economics Fails to Account for the Climate Crisis”, and TWO 🤯 ‘What If…?’ Questions

№ 92 | Ask This Book A Question, Jackdaw Folders, The Wizards & Workshops Deck, NOISE Analysis + SOLVED Cards, “How Economics Fails to Account for the Climate Crisis”, and TWO 🤯 ‘What If…?’ Questions

Look who’s back—with more playful things to think with! Ask This Book A Question Ask This Book A Question is described as “an interactive game [emphasis mine] that empowers you to understand yourself in a new way, inviting you on a playful journey of self-discovery.” I love publications

By Stephen P. Anderson
№ 91 | Short Films as ‘Playful Things to Think With’, The Workshop Map, Meeting Solar System, A Field Guide to Hype, The Time is Now Toolkit, and Two Short Posts on Cognition

№ 91 | Short Films as ‘Playful Things to Think With’, The Workshop Map, Meeting Solar System, A Field Guide to Hype, The Time is Now Toolkit, and Two Short Posts on Cognition

Another issue. More playful ‘things to think with’ and think about! Short Films as ‘Playful Things to Think With’ I’m going to ‘cheat’ a bit, and share something I just published: Short Films as ‘Playful Things to Think With’. Before the Oscar season gets too far off in the

By Stephen P. Anderson