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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Cards for Insight: Virtue “There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

A boat, having made its last journey, now up on the shore on a grassy slope in the shade of a tree, turned houseboat.

Cards for Insight: Virtue

“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Cards for Insight: Play Card: Social Media as Play In a network, in social media, we play: we click like buttons and add emojis, not because we like something, but to signal things, to ourselves, to the other and to others. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Image: Snow Monkeys chilling in a hot spring.

Cards for Insight: Play

Card: Social Media as Play
In a network, in social media, we play:
we click like buttons and add emojis,
not because we like something, but
to signal things, to ourselves, to the
other and to others. The rules for our
signalling reflect who we are online.

"Play is the establishment and
exploration of relationship."
— Gregory Bateson

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Cards for Insight ... add thoughts; journal reflections; highlight insights; seek context; shape stories ... Card: Myth Myth connects us to the deep, timeless narratives that shape our understanding of existence and our place in the cosmos. . johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Policemen lead away a Green Alien after he crashed into Santa's Sleigh.

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

21st Century Literacies: Reading It's not hoarding if it's pdfs. Card: Reading Reading weaves together narratives that shape our understanding of the world and our place in it. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Image: Drawing by Tom Gauld, Shelves

It isn't hoarding if all the books are on shelves.

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Museum Goers with their Dog After Project 2025 youtu.be/1vUk8L17A8Q?...

Museum Goers with their Dog After Project 2025

Image to the Youtube video:
Paul Simon - "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War"

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Cards for Insight: Halfway Card: Beyond We see the world, not as it is, but as we are, and then, we reach beyond ourselves, and meet the universe halfway. ... notice how cards are portals, your thoughts how you step through ... johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Image: A screenshot of a scene from the movie Solaris by Andrey Tarkovsky, based on a book by Stanislaw Lem.

Cards for Insight: Reach beyond Grasp

Card: Beyond
We see the world, not as it is,
but as we are, and then, we
reach beyond ourselves, and
meet the universe halfway.

... notice how cards are portals,
with your taking thought how
you activate and step through ...

Card: Stepping Stones
Cards as stepping stones for
humans finding themselves
between narratives, seeking story.

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Cards for Insight Card: Story Imagine thought as a journey through an intricate landscape. Each card is a step, a tool for navigating this terrain, uncovering hidden paths, and connecting seemingly distant ideas. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Rediscovering human beings online bsky-users.theo.io

An image showing current bluesky user count.

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Cards for Insight: Great Design Card: Design Synthesis Making sense of complex information by combining diverse ideas, data, and perspectives into coherent insights. — How would we know? — Flow. Flow is how we know. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Cards for Insight: Taking Thought Card: Movement of Thought Divergent play opens spaces for exploration, emergent play reveals patterns and connections and, convergent play crystallizes understanding and directs action. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Cards for Insight: Tapestry of Ideas Card: Networks of Meaning How do our individual contributions interweave into a larger tapestry of ideas? What new connections can we create to deepen the narrative? johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Cards for Insight: Shu Ha Ri of Opinion In a network, the best place to explore questions is in metalogue with other people. Card: Shu Ha Ri Leveling up our social media game, exploring questions and refining our opinion. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Cards for Insight: Mindsets Card: Mindset Shift More than its material parts, technology is a mindset. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Cards for Insight: Mindsets

Card: Mindset Shift
More than its material parts,
technology is a mindset.

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Cards for Insight: Seeking Story Card: Stepping Stones Cards as stepping stones for humans finding themselves between narratives, seeking story. Use the cards to navigate complexity. Cultivate understanding as generative closure. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Cards for Insight: Seeking Story

... navigate complexity; navigate the new;
join a room for understanding; gather
around a complex dilemma, formulated
as a generative center question ...

Card: Stepping Stones
Cards as stepping stones for
humans finding themselves
between narratives, seeking story.

... pick cards and journal
your immediate thoughts ...

Card; Understanding
What if understanding is our ability to hold space
for the possibility of knowledge, as it emerges,
unfolds, directs and discloses its relevance
to unexplored aspects of things known?

Patterns of Play
Before, after and
between the cards.

... associate your thoughts to
and between the cards ...

... pick cards and journal
your immediate thoughts ...

... take thought, make small moves along
paths of purposeful action and cultivate
understanding as generative closure ...

... capture small group genius insights and
create knowledge artifacts and cardcasts ...

Cards for Insight: How to play
Add your thoughts to and between the cards.
Use the cards to navigate complexity.
Cultivate understanding as generative closure.

https://johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-insight-between-narratives-6a7ab15c0e49

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You might need glasses the coming four years. youtu.be/JI8AMRbqY6w?...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Cards for Insight: Knowledge Ecosystems ... gather around a complex dilemma ... Card: Equity Core elements that support value creation, scalability, and equity in a collaborative knowledge ecosystem. ... associate your thoughts to the cards ... johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Cards for Insight: Knowledge Ecosystems

... navigate complexity; navigate the new;
gather around a complex dilemma,
formulated as a generative question ...

Card: Equity
Core elements that support value
creation, scalability, and equity in a
collaborative knowledge ecosystem.

... associate your thoughts to and between
the cards; use cards to trace the gradient
from raw data and fragmented information
to understanding; start with a few cards and
gradually build up to more nuanced insights
by layering inquiries; look for patterns in the
cards that signify knowledge flow ...

Card: Information turned Knowledge
What if knowledge is a gradient?
Moving from scattered, fragmented
information to deeper understanding?

... take thought; make small moves along
paths of purposeful action; cultivate
understanding as generative closure;
capture small group genius insights and
create knowledge artifacts and cardcasts ...

Card-Play and Card-Play Conversation
Heuristics for Intermediate Users

1. Boundary Thinking: Recognize that boundaries in knowledge are permeable. Instead of treating them as barriers, explore them as opportunities to expand your inquiry. Ask how insights in one domain might inform another.

2. Dynamic Knowledge Flow: Use card-play to trace gradients of knowledge, moving from raw data to contextual intelligence.

flow = structure x process

3. Contextual Agency: Focus on how contextual intelligence can turn insights into proactive responses.

4. Generative Inquiry: Treat inquiry as a spiraling process, revisiting and refining previous ideas.

5. Evolving Formats: Be flexible with the formats of play. Adapt the gameboards, associations, and rules to fit the evolving nature of the inquiry.

6. Artifact Refinement: Revisit cards, sessions, and casts as living artifacts. Update them as new insights emerge, and use them as guides for further inquiry.

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Cards for Insight: State of Interdependence In a network, the best place to store knowledge is in other people. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

State of Independence

"It is the very nature
of the sound, the game"
— Donna Summer

https://youtu.be/aYW2o4uf504?si=vsLbPG_zM7JI58dw

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Cards for Insight: State of Interdependence

In a network, the best place
to store knowledge is in
other people.

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Cards for Insight: Mindset ... propriocept small thinks ... Card: Four Years Four years of uninterrupted joy, bliss and happiness. ... mend small things ... johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in... Find a few perspectives on the card in the alt text.

Cards for Insight: Mindset
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... propriocept small thinks ...
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Card: Four Years
Four years of uninterrupted
joy, bliss and happiness.
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... mend small things ...
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John Kellden:
Speculate on five different ways ordinary online humans, having a busy day, full of stress, with looming political and ecosystemic worries ahead, could still read, reflect on and find inspiration in the below card.
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Card: Four Years
Four years of uninterrupted
joy, bliss and happiness.
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ChatGPT:
Here are five speculative ways in which a busy, stressed person could interact with the message on the card *"Four years of uninterrupted joy, bliss, and happiness"* and find inspiration despite their worries:
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3. A Reminder of Resilience
For someone overwhelmed by stress, the card might symbolize the belief that better days lie ahead. Even in the face of political or ecological uncertainty, it could inspire a sense of resilience, nudging the reader to focus on what they can do today to create pockets of bliss and to hold onto hope for a brighter future.
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5. An Invitation to Simplify
The phrase might suggest to a reader that joy, bliss, and happiness aren’t inherently complicated. The card could inspire them to let go of unnecessary stresses—perhaps by decluttering their schedule, saying no to obligations that don’t serve them, or focusing on the simpler pleasures in life, like a good book, a quiet moment, or an act of kindness.
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By engaging with the message in these ways, the card becomes not just a whimsical idea but a source of reflection and actionable inspiration for someone navigating the challenges of a busy, stress-filled life.
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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Cards for Insight: Navigating Complexity Card: Conscious Evolution A purposeful shift in individual and collective awareness leading to intentional and responsible co-creation of the future. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Cards for Insight

... navigate complexity; navigate the new;
gather around a complex dilemma,
formulated as a generative center question ...

Card: Conscious Evolution
A purposeful shift in individual
and collective awareness leading
to intentional and responsible
co-creation of the future.

... take thought, make small moves along
paths of purposeful action and cultivate
understanding as generative closure ...

Card: Preferable Outcome
A vision of a thriving, equitable, and
sustainable future, where individuals
and communities flourish in harmony
with each other and the natural world.

... capture small group genius insights and
create knowledge artifacts and cardcasts ...

“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence.
The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
— Thomas Merton

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Cards for Insight: How to play Add your thoughts to and between the cards. Cultivate understanding as generative closure. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Cards for Insight: Ecologies of Care

... adopt a civil code of behavior ...

Card: Civil Code
Adopting a civil
code of behavior.

... add thoughts, connect
cards and questions ...

Card: Civil Code - Synergy
What if adopting a civil code means co-creating an
online and offline ecology of care, where actions
amplify collective well-being, and every contribution
is a step toward a brighter shared horizon?

... take thought, make small moves along
paths of purposeful action and cultivate
understanding as generative closure,
capture small group genius insights and
create knowledge artifacts and cardcasts ...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Looked at from the angle of the Gom Jabbar (Dune, Frank Herbert), the test is simple. We only have to keep our hand in the box for four years, enduring excruciating pain, and, having proven ourselves to be human, we can then remove our hand, unharmed. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

Cards for Insight: Myth

Card: Myth
Myth connects us to the deep, timeless
narratives that shape our understanding
of existence and our place in the cosmos.

There's profound value and scalable products and services that remain almost untapped, in the (venn) intersects and overlaps between the below cards.

... gather around a complex dilemma, formulated
as a generative center question, placed at the
center of a Cards for Insight 3x3 gameboard ...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Cards for Insight: Seeing Ourselves Through Card: Scylla and Charybdis Anyone drawn too close risks being caught in undercurrents of moral turpitude, where collective responsibility is sacrificed for mindless loyalty and thinly disguised greed. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Card: Understanding What if understanding is our ability to hold space for the possibility of knowledge, as it emerges, unfolds, directs and discloses its relevance to unexplored aspects of things known? johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

It's too late for common ground. It's never too late to take the next steps together, from here to there, to common ground. A path made by walking is path worth taking. johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-in...

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Adjacent Possible Playground: Arcs . In a network, tracing different arcs around spheres. . "I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first I thought it was revolving; then I realized..." — Jorge Luis Borges . adjacentpossible.social

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Adjacent Possible Playground: Art of Words . "Its power seems inescapable." — Ursula K. Le Guin .https://adjacentpossible.social/

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Adjacent Possible Playground: Our Quest . "Our quest is to understand Understanding."— Alfred North Whitehead . adjacentpossible.social

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Adjacent Possible Playground: Taking Thought."And thus the bristling hair of resolution Is softened up with the pale brush of thought, And since our choices hinge on weighty things, We pause upon the threshold of decision." ― Henry N. Beard.https://adjacentpossible.social/

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Adjacent Possible Playground: Play .Work is a subset of play is a subset of process is a subset of flow is a subset of aliveness. Adjacent Possible Playground is cards, cards as learning into aliveness affordances..https://adjacentpossible.social/

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Adjacent Possible Playground: Modules.chat, cards, notes and boundary objects .https://adjacentpossible.social/

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Adjacent Possible Playground. adjacentpossible.social

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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

... card-play conversations around generative questions, with human and AI-assisted annotations addressing worthwhile dilemmas, cultivating shared understanding as generative closure, with thoughts, insights, moves, paths and preferable outcomes evaluated against envisioned end game scenarios ...

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