Adjacent Possible Playground: Maintenance

Cards to explore new perspectives and gain insight

John Kellden
2 min readJan 14, 2024

… pick cards and add your thoughts before,
after, between, around and to the cards …

Zen and the Art of Favorite Things Maintenance

… formulate and gather around generative questions …

Card: Maintenance
Preserving and enhancing the
quality of things that we value.

… formulate and gather around generative questions; pick cards and add your thoughts to and between them; engage in card-play conversations around center, generative questions, with human and AI-assisted card annotations addressing worthwhile dilemmas; cultivate shared understanding as generative closure; evaluate thoughts, insights, moves, paths and preferable outcomes against envisioned end game scenarios, and co-create knowledge artifacts building on the cards, card-play conversations and annotations …

Cards: Questions, play, insights , patterns of play and shared understanding

Card: Maintenance
Preserving functionality and enhancing
performance. Understanding the intricate
workings of a system, identifying potential
breakdowns, and taking proactive steps
to prevent them.

Card: Maintenance
In our personal lives, maintenance manifests
as self-care, mindfulness, and the conscious
effort to nurture our relationships, well-being,
and passion, our sense of self and meaning.

Card: Maintenance
The next time you find yourself faced with
a task of maintenance, take a moment to
approach it with a Zen mindset.

Card: Maintenance
When finding yourself in the middle of a
generative sequence characterised by a
moment of awareness related to review,
story, patterns of play, tasks, moves and
generative review — notice the details,
focus on the present moment, and
accept the imperfections as part of the
process. You may be surprised at how
different(calming, reframing, meaningful
and rewarding) this experience can be.

Card: Maintenance
Cultivating information turned knowledge,
in light of will turned flow, intelligence
turned ability, behavior turned agency
and attention turned situational awareness.

Q&U: Card-play conversations unfolding paths to preferable outcomes

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Cards for Insight: LLM’s
Cards, patterns of play and card-play conversations combine,
facilitating exploring paths between worthwhile dilemmas,
generative center questions and preferable outcomes.

There’s around 500 cards in the source deck, with more than 120k
two-card and 21M three-card combinations. With four-, five- and
six-card combinations mapping to LLM’s, Large Language Models, facilitating human associations(card-play) combining with
AI-assisted annotations(prompts and responses).

Think cards with an underlying pattern language and with an underlying Modular Process Onto-Epistemology forming part of an Online Commonplace, with a searchable Knowledge Repository.

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John Kellden

Cards catalyzing stories, Conversations that mind and matter, Digital communities and collaborative narratives