week 35 / 2024
Why do they call it "a cold" if a) you can get it in the summer, and b) it makes you feel hot and fevered? This week, things have been slow, for reasons of plague.
Paul Graham Raven
less magic, more traffic
Hello, worldbuilders! It feels a lot like the roundabout just hasn't stopped spinning over the week just gone—and next week it's The Conference, which means the metaphorical carny will be reaching out his hairy hand to give it another good shove... which means there'
week 34 / 2024
Apparently adults don't get a sticker for visiting the dentist, even when they've not been for two decades? ANYWAY—this week, tales are constituting tellers, and patterns are undergoing recognition.
no one is to blame, but everyone's complicit: the necessity of practice-based theories of change
Before I start digging deep into practice-based theories of change, it's well worth asking why I think they're useful.
pass the vol-au-vents
Hello, worldbuilders! And welcome to those of you who've signed up in the last few days. Glad you could come—take a chair, get yourself a drink. How are things?
We've got no Actual Announcement this week; I would announce again that I've giving
week 33 / 2024
Muggy, sticky, clammy... and that's just my handshake! This week, we've got Kentucky gentlemen and New Yorickan communists, and a whole lot more besides.
against the ideas of the nineteen-hundreds: an interview with Karl Schroeder
An interview with author, designer and foresight practitioner Karl Schroeder, on worldbuilding (of course), narrative as an analytical tool, leaving behind the ideas of the nineteen-hundreds, and much more.