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Skill trees In a previous Friday Finds (April 21), I posted about a Skill Tree for 3D Printing & Modeling. Self explanatory. I love skill trees (in board games, video games, Kahn academy, and elsewhere) as a way to think about the micro skills that build upon each other…without
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Speculative cartography Ok. Here's an odd (and clever!) kind of ‘thing to think with’—speculative cartography. Specifically, maps of a future earth, after sea levels rise. Pictured below is the “famous 1748 Nolli map of Rome, with 66m of sea level rise.” See dozens more similar prints at
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Caregiving 101 I love the interplay between the cards and journal in this Caregiving 101 design project (check out the concept video!). Caregiving101 is a caregiving toolkit seeking to facilitate conversations between caregivers. The system of tools within Caregiving101 is built upon the foundations of Solomon’s Paradox - that
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Challenge & opportunity cards These Challenge & Opportunity Cards can be “used to identify and map challenges and opportunities when adopting design in the public sector.” Free download. Have fun cutting out all these hexagons. 😳 While you're there, check out the other methods and tools from Service Design
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Local-first software By way of this Wired article—“The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?”—I came across a new to me term (and manifesto): “Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud.” While the term is new, the concept is
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Unfix cards Another week, another card deck! This week, it's the unFIX cards which look like they cover various topics such as Decisions, Goal-Setting, Process and Growth, Reteaming, and Structure. Mundane Superheroes A ♥️ this workshop opener from John V Willshire. As a facilitator, I deeply appreciate activities that
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Green New Deal card game Here’s an interview with Paolo Pedercini of Molleindustrai, developer of Green New Deal Simulator, a deck-building game that offers “accessible education on renewable energy transition.” From the interview: I’m hoping the game will get people more interested in the Green New Deal, which
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Future scenarios, inspired by videogames They took your garbage can away today. Your recycling bin too. All that’s left is the compost bin. Neighbors are standing at the curb watching the trucks drive off, looking a bit in shock. It sounded impossible when the federal government first announced it
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Board Games for Change ‘And the nominees are…’ Games for Change, known for recognizing video games with a social impact, has added a new category recognizing…wait for it… board games!! 🎉 Check out this article from Polygon for more about each of the four nominees. Oh, and can I brag
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Guidelines for human-AI interaction I kind of like these Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction from Microsoft. As they're context-based—mapping to stages of an interaction—they're easy to use as a kind of checklist or assessment for any AI projects in-development or recently launched. Ethics of Influence
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Hexaflexagons! Mind. Blown. 🤯 Drop what you’re doing and watch these two videos about hexaflexagons: 1. Hexaflexagons 2. Hexaflexagons 2 The video format is wildly entertaining, as is the subject matter. And a bit of history to boot! There’s also a bit in part 2 where ‘Feynman’ insists on
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Multiversal appeal I love essays like this that can step back, normally a few decades after the fact, and make cultural observations as to why something got into our collective psyche. Anyway, here’s a commentary on “How the multiverse got into our heads and didn’t let go.” If