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⚡️ The Psychopomp’s Field Guide to Power & Control & Also the Lack Thereof 🪐
Logan 🪶⚖️💀
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- "A lot of pedagogy covers the same questions as game design (especially tutorials): how much explicit guidance should a student/player get in an activity?
The “vow of silence”: to preserve the joy of discovery, games should carefully structure their activities so that players will learn what they need through play. An approach very similar to the co... See morefrom Game Design by Andy Matuschak
- How to criticize something you disagree with
Here are social psychologist Anatol Rapoport’s rules for criticizing something:
You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are ... See more - Open-ended meaning-making, shared world, scarce real-estate. These three properties are crucial. Every game with more than one player becomes a game about the interaction between those players. Without shared scarcity, there is no incentive to join our realities, and meaning-making becomes fork-only.
from Wiki as a Commons by Gordon Brander
- Solnit argues that leftist organizers suffer from clinging to fixed views on the strategies and practices that lead to liberation. In fact, the idea that these fixed strategies and practices will lead to a static utopia is the delusion of permanence. Instead, organizers should adopt a view of process, responding to the needs of the moment. She quot... See more
Be like water. (Regarding the power of surrender in the context of leftist political organizing)
- "Play: Play, therefore, introduces something that can be called “second reality” (Vygotsky, 1978). In this reality the life is going on as if it is the “primary reality,” but with the nice difference that whenever I don’t like what happens, I simply stop the process and go out, or start it anew. This makes play suspiciously like consciousness
Tools:... See morefrom Consciousness by Evan Thompson
- "Striving play: pursuing winning for the sake of the struggle and the intrinsic act of playing the game itself.
Two clear parts:
In order to engage ourselves in striving play, I must be able to take on a disposable end that is treated as final. It builds the capacity to submerge ourselves in narrowed agential modes.
Being unable to do this leads to th... See morefrom Games: Agency as Art by C. Thi Nguyen
- EMBEDDED: Have you tried any alternatives to Twitter?
FOSTER KAMER: Yeah, and they all suck. For whatever reason, I was just reminded of the Jenny Holzer line: PEOPLE WHO DON’T WORK WITH THEIR HANDS ARE PARASITES. I think about it often.from My Internet: Foster Kamer
absolute facts 💯 the twitter format has thoroughly broken the zeitgeist, even for those of us who are so terminally online that it’s a blow to our pride to admit that we’ve been out-gunned & out-crazied.
- Pro tip: view this site on a full monitor to see waaaay more. That phone in your hand is killing your productivity.
from christykintzel.com
ughhhh i know i knowwwww 😓 the smartphone habit is even harder to kick than yay, i’ll tell ya hwat 😫