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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

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№ 64 | Edge-Notched Cards, Folk Computer, Perspective Blocks, Visual Thinkery, and The Business Meerkat

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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№ 63 | Dreams and Disruptions Card Deck, Half-Earth Socialism, Bento, A Mathematician’s Lament (Video Style!), and Linchpins

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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№ 62 | Reading QR Codes, ‘Possibility-First’ Pitches, Futurecasting from IKEA, Focus on Features, and the BAD Toolkit

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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№ 61 | “31 Days to a Better You,” Contra Chrome, Complexity, Managing Your Manager (Card Concept), and “Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future”

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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№ 60 | dashingDev Card Deck, Hopepunk, Six Corporate Lies, On Organizing Organizations, and “Communal Bonfires”

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