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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

02 Sep 2022 — 1 min read

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.

№ 97 | Workshops and Wizards Cards, Human Agency Scale, System Health Over Time, 10 Notable Data Visualizations, Your Brain as a Closet, Two Org Frameworks from John Cutler, ‘A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport’, and SideQuest Decks!

Your regular dose of playful things to think with, and think about! Workshops and Wizards cards (UPDATE) A few issues ago, I shared an early prototype of the Wizards & Workshops cards from James Smart, a small set of fantasy themed ‘kudos’ cards participants can give to each other during

№ 96 | Cards for Uncertainty, The Curiosity Curve, Communicating to Reduce Resistance, Envisioning Cards, Scrutinizing “Best Practices”, Nick Sousanis on Due Process, and Reservoir Sampling

Welcome to issue № 96 of the Thinking Things newsletter, your regular roundup of playful ‘things to think with’ and think about… Cards for Uncertainty I want to kick things off with a question to think with, asked by Zbigniew Janczukowicz at the last Cardstock meetup, a question that left us

№ 95 | Conquest (a VUCA Game), PLOT4AI Card Deck, MANY Ways to Launch a Startup, Union-Co-ops Zine, Power Skills, Barrier Island, and A Computational Public Space

Conquest (A Game to Explain VUCA) 😍 Mmm. A board game to learn about VUCA [LI]. More to the point: A board game designed for players to experience Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Ever wanted to explain VUCA to managers without boring them into a coma? We The Catalyst made a

№ 94 | Archipelago of Possibilities, Strategically Vague Questions, Pattern ABC Cards, Letter to a Young Systems Thinker, The Heroine’s Journey, and A Theme Park in Miro

Here’s your regular dose of playful things to think with, and think about! Archipelago of Possibilities This single photo was enough to derail me from whatever I was doing, and get my mind whirring at the creative possibilities. Look at the canvas map! Where do the cards come from?