I’m C. Thi Nguyen. I used to be a food writer, now I’m a philosophy professor at University of Utah. I write about trust, art, games, and communities. I’m interested in the ways that our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value. My first book is Games: Agency as Art. It was awarded the American Philosophical Associations 2021 Book Prize. It’s about how games are the art form that work in the medium of agency. A game designer doesn’t just create a world – they create who we are in that world. Games shape temporary agencies for artistic purposes. https://objectionable.net/

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Gordon Brander: Wiki as a Commons. Wikis are like the Minecraft of tools for thought — very simple, very open-ended. (generative) (more)

Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American philosopher and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory,[1] a philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber

Spiral Dynamics (SD) is a model of the evolutionary development of individuals, organizations, and societies. It was initially developed by Don Edward Beck and Christopher Cowan based on the emergent cyclical theory of Clare W. Graves, combined with memetics as proposed by Richard Dawkins and further developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. A later collaboration between Beck and Ken Wilber produced Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi).[1] Several variations of Spiral Dynamics continue to exist, both independently and incorporated into or drawing on Wilber's Integral theory.[2] In addition to influencing both integral theory and metamodernism,[3] Spiral Dynamics is noted for its applications in management theory and business ethics,[4][5][6][7] and as an example of applied memetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics

Futurism process associated with Shell Oil and the Global Business Network. Most common structure is 2x2 considering effects of whether 2 macro trends/events come true in the future. (more)

When your computer "corrects" your writing/typing without asking you. Could be spelling error (typing), grammatical error, or something even fuzzier.... (more)

Dan Hon: s07e22: Cynical, me? ARGs are still around! (more)

Gordon Brander: Subconscious app Alpha. I’m closing in on a functional MVP for Subconscious, targeting an alpha in Q1 2022. Short term, the alpha will be a tiny, single-player iOS notes app for self-organizing ideas. (more)

Book predicting crash of the world based on Population Growth exceeding resource growth. The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report[2] on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation.[3] The study used the World3 computer model to simulate the consequence of interactions between the earth and human systems.[a][4] The model was based on the work of Jay Forrester of MIT,[2]: 21  as described in his book World Dynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth (more)

Tracery: generate text, graphics and more. Tracery is a super-simple tool and language to generate text, by GalaxyKate (Kate Compton). Users have made twitterbots, artbots, games, and stories with Tracery. https://tracery.io/ (more)

Pragmatic alternative to WebMention: including a link to a page in your Digital Garden in a Twitter-thread, plus including a link in each Digital Garden page to search for all tweets including that link. Executed in FluxGarden. See (2021-07-09) TwitterLinks instead of WebMentions. Helps build Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts. (more)

hardware and software designer http://worrydream.com/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Victor (more)

interesting card-deck by Alex Komoroske - https://thecompendium.cards/ (more)

Product Management thought-leader https://www.jjrorie.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjrorie/ (more)

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Suite of software for software projects. Subset of features you'd call true Project Management Software or Product Management Software - no Gantt Chart, detailed time reporting, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software) (more)

Warren Ellis: The Manfred Macx Media Diet. I re-read Charlie Stross’ ACCELERANDO at least once a year. More often, I’ll return to just the first three chapters once every few months. (more)

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