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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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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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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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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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📣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
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This week’s roundup of ‘playful✨ things to think with’ all have an oddly homegrown analog quality to them… After the first two ‘finds’ kind of locked into place, I decided to run with this quasi-craftsy theme! 📣It's not too late to join in the “Make A Zine!
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Dreams and Disruptions Card Deck Lately, it feels like I’m seeing more of these futurist card decks. But, none of the other scenario-building activities include a zombie apocalypse or jurassic resurgence! 🤪 Dreams and Disruptions looks like it dials up the imagination up to 11. Build scenarios with a twist
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Reading QR Codes Learn how to read QR codes without a computer?! I love this interactive, visual explanation of QR codes. ‘Possibility-first’ pitches I’m drawn to nuanced language choices that help us dial in our thinking with a bit more clarity. For example, ages ago, I stopped talking about
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Hello!! After a taking a few months to ‘recharge, reflect, retool, and reboot…’ I'm back! Beginning with this issue, there are a few changes: 1/ A new name! “Friday Finds” are now “Thinking Things” (The Mighty Minds Club Newsletter). Yes, more alliteration. 2/ A new frequency: I’ll
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dashingDev Card Deck I'm not a developer, but… maybe the dashingDev Card Deck would help me understand more programming concepts, without having to learn the syntax of any specific language. 🤪 dashingDev is a card deck designed to inspire, improve and remind developers. Each card summarizes a core concept
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Regenerative Design Field Kit Remember that “Obliquiscope” I shared a few weeks back? Yeah, it's now available for purchase from John V Willshire as part of a complete regenerative design field kit: In this field kit, the viewer is accompanied by a set of 40 question cards, created
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LEGO How We Create Inspiration Deck Another card deck! Essentially, 78 “quotes + building prompts to spark creativity” crowdsourced from LEGO employees. Chronicle blasted four questions out to Lego employees not just in Billund, but also to every corner of the brand’s ecosystem around the world: What motivates you to
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It’s… and odd assortment of things, this week. 🤪 A twist on the periodic table of elements Ooh. A new twist on the period table of elements—based on their galactic origins! Montessori architectural patterns Two things I love, together: Architecture + Montessori. Montessori Architecture lists principles for designing school buildings
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The Seven Meetings You Hate You might have seen a pattern from me: Whenever someone has done to work to identify and classify some topic, I sense that we're well on the way toward turning that complex topic into a game, of sorts. Ideas have been organized. Labels
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Inspiration Wild Cards By way of a Cardstock discussion about ‘cards that make use of both sides,’ I think it was Matt Ballantine who shared the Inspiration Wild Cards, a set of 50 cards in 5 categories (super forces, fiction laws, super heroes, stereotypes and nightmare) designed to stimulate creativity.
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It’s been a busy week at the Anderson household, as we celebrated multiple birthdays 🎂 this week (including my own!), but… I still managed to accumulate a mass of really interesting stuff I wanted to share with y’all. Enjoy! “The Privilege of Play” I enjoyed this is essay on