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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Board games solving real-world problems? Raising awareness of an issue is one thing, as is bringing about understanding. But to facilitate actual problem solving? YES! Hailey Campbell, a city climate adaptation specialist in Hawaii, is the person behind a pair of (yes, TWO!) board games to facilitate difficult conversations around
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Knowledge Structures Here's a great introduction to knowledge structures by Francis Miller. AKA, diagrams, canvases, frameworks, visual representations of thought… with a slight difference: The orientation to these visual representations is more cognitive in nature (how we think vs thinking made visual). Sidenote: I have a love/hate