Card: Possibility Space

In a network, we play^n to win^n, at social machine scope and scale.

John Kellden
2 min readNov 28, 2021
Technology is the human interface to our joint future.

Card: Possibility Space
There’s 60% overlap between
our online possibility spaces
and the emerging, evolving
DAO ecosystems.

The Pain
Most people online still operate inside an old increasingly obsolete paradigm: content consumption and information hoarding.

With your attention diverted, your 4E and 9E Cognition mind, processing ten million bits per second, then find itself inside an online prefab narrative sensegiving, designed not at all to your benefit, where you are trying to make sense of it all through your personal ten bits per second conscious mind.

The result?
Overwhelm, drowning in content, starving for meaning.

To add shared misery (fb), borderline solipsist pontification (twitter) or adolescent angst (insta) to your pain, there’s an increasingly weaponized proprietary platform programming (current euphemisms: social media, marketing and content) keeping you inside grand theft data systems. The problem is you ended up adapted to all this. Your enthusiasm, curbing to zero.

The Cure
We need different playbooks, helping us design, build and homestead a different social web.

Possibility Spaces: Game^n
The cure is the playing in ways conducive to homesteading possibility spaces; the play^n, game^n and win^n, cultural activities through which we and societies frame and reframe.

Playbooks afford Play
Playbooks affording reading, participatory inquiry, annotating, playing and riffing, with Generative Questions, Cards, Card Decks, Card Sessions, Labs, Social Machines, helping us turn social media into social social media.

Play^n is 103% about cultural activities through which we and societies frame and reframe.

Wait, media is play^n? Always has been
Media designed for human coordination of worthwhile effort, with transaction and monetization layers evolving with Mixtapes (Cards, NFT’s) produced in Card Session, Recording and Post-Production Studios, whether DAO’s, Squads, Pods or Small Group Genius Gatherings.

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John Kellden

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