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№ 76 | Olympic Dataviz, A Strategy Based on The Periodic Table, Dimensionality & Agency, A Shared Commons, The Happiness Workout Deck, and a Sneak Peek at the Zombie Leadership Cards

Two amazing data visualizations from the Olympics I love stumbling across novel, or at least uncommon, ways to represent information. These visualizations from dataviz designer Krisztina Szűcs are 🧑‍🍳🤌💋: First, a multi-tiered cake chart representing the Women's Pole Vault Finals: 0:00 /0:39 1× Then, this fencing (🤺) visualization:

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№ 75 | Eco-ing Seattle, Mapping the Gen-AI Landscape, The Conflict House, Arduino’s Plug and Make Kit, and The WITHIN Leadership Toolkit

Eco-ing Seattle I’ve been enjoying this series reimagining an 18-block space Northgate, a Seattle neighborhood. Essentially, this a bit of speculative urban planning, based on ecological ideas from Edencity (a different project imagining “an eden-like city” with “economic + ecological abundance”). What struck me is this: It’s one thing

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№ 74 | Beyond the Hero’s Journey, Even/Over Statements, Frugal Education: Action Cards, Honest Government Ad for AI, and Terra Fabula

[Video] Beyond the Hero’s Journey One of my many side interests is how stories work. To that end, this talk on character arcs has been playing over in my head for a few weeks now. It feels like a great way to think about narratives, in a way that’

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№ 73 | Low Carbon Lifestyle Cards, Calculating Empires, Roleplaying Games at NASA, “How to Solarpunk” Zine, and Everyday Concepts

Low Carbon Lifestyle Cards I’m wary of climate action strategies that try to shift the burden to individuals, when so much of the cause is systemic, economic, power structures (See “What we are up against”). But, that doesn’t mean there aren’t actions that we—as individuals—can

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№ 72 | GenAI Card Deck, “Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers,” How Mechanical Watches Work, Zombie Leadership, Creative Futuring for Organizations, and The Path to Newton

GenAI Card Deck If you must bring Generative AI into your work, here’s a card game that’ll quickly get everyone up to speed on core concepts while exploring what Gen AI can do. While this is fundamentally a structured brainstorming tool, with cards for kind of input, output,

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№ 71 | Queueing Strategies, “Thought-Terminating Clichés,” Exquisite Conversation Cards, Inspired Check-Ins Card Deck, A Framework for Hybrid Organizations, and Priya Parker on Room Density

Queueing strategies Thanks to this interactive study of queueing strategies from Sam Rose, I now understand the programming concept of queueing. The post uses a series of highly interactive visuals and micro-challenges that demystify why HTTP requests sometimes fail—and different queuing strategies to help prevent these failures. This is

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№ 70 | MANIFESTO!, 21st Century Economics, CodeCards, The Familiarity-Playfulness Matrix, and AI Safety for Fleshy Humans

MANIFESTO! MANIFESTO! is a card game “for stimulating and supporting manifesto authoring.” I’m intrigued! And as it happens… 🥁  Julian Hanna—one of the co-creators of the MANIFESTO!—will be presenting at the next Cardstock meetup on May 24th. If this sounds fascinating, then in addition to the card deck

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№ 69 | Hexi™ for Scrum, Digital Spaces, Mario meets Pareto, Team Taxonomies, and Critically Engaging with Models

Hexi™ for Scrum Why is that hexagon-based toolkits (and games!) are so darn appealing?! There’s a good explanation buried in this video introduction to the newest Hexi™ for Scrum kit from the Cynefin Company. Hexi™ is a new approach using physical artifacts designed to consolidate methods, approaches, tools and

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№ 68 | Ace of Aces, Rewilding the Internet, Delegation Poker Cards, How to Say It Flashcards, and Three Components of Love

Ace of Aces A few months ago, I shared a video about Edge-notched cards, a kind of queryable database...made of paper! Keeping with the theme of a paper computer, here’s a brilliant analysis of Ace of Aces, a “Choose Your Own Adventure first-person shooter from 1980… [that] involves

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№ 67 | Dataset Transparency, Hydrologic Cycle Board Game, Bad News Game, Attractor Landscapes, and Constructive Conflict

Models All The Way Down Stop what you’re doing. Set aside 15 minutes (maybe more?) and “read” through all of this bit of investigative journalism. Models All The Way Down is THE clearest explanation I’ve come across to explain what happens behind the scenes with AI models used

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№ 66 | Diary of a CEO Conversation Cards, CreaTures Framework, ‘Journey’, Sci-Fi Frames, and The Spinning Top Framework

Diary of a CEO Conversation Cards So… another deck of conversation starters. What’s the twist that makes this card deck interesting? The questions in Diary of a CEO Conversation Cards were born out of The Diary of a CEO podcast, where host Steven Bartlett has “each guest answer a

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№ 65 | Enter the Spudnet, Decolonizing Play, Ads Promoting Fossil Fuel Usage (Satire), the Interactive Cocktail Cabinet, and 10 Brilliant Illustrations

📣One last reminder… It's not too late to join in the “Make A Zine!” Challenge (hint, you should!). If the word zine stops you, then think about it this way—this is a great exercise to: * Force clarity on a complex topic * Beta test a book concept * Geek