Playground Principles
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Playground Principles
We’ve found in our experiments with Smalltown that high quality participation on small social networks requires significant “social scaffolding.” Much of this scaffolding looks similar to what a local reporter or community organizer does. Connecting with people, asking questions, surfacing issues, building trust, and organizing. You can’t just buil... See more
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Structured play esa saardinaan
Andrew Hinton is emphasizing collaborative sense-making as a process that involves breaking people out of rigid, habitual thought patterns (what he refers to as the “monkey mind”). By using playful, low-stakes activities—like writing wit
... See moreBe up front. When Lukas Rosenstock hosted his first after-work party at his home, he embraced not having it figured all out. “I didn’t pretend to be confident about the concept, but instead always mentioned that I got the idea from a book and that it was an experiment, so people knew what they signed up for,” he explained. Studies suggest that we f
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