Cards for Insight: Addressing Your Questions

John Kellden
3 min readDec 23, 2021

There’s a lack of Web 3 knowledge work use cases.

Reframing Things: Corner of Cards & Text
- How would we know?
- Flow. Flow is how we know.

Q&U: Online knowledge work at social machine scale.

In a network, what words, worlds?

WWANWW?
What would Alfred North Whitehead Write?

Alfred North Whitehead: Memes repurposed, weaving process and reality.

One Or Several Yarns
In the images, there’s several layers. Which layer holds your attention? What select parts of your attention, invested, leading to what situational awareness? What cards, what card sessions, to what preferable outcomes?

How do these layers together with your investment of attention,
lead to generativity?

Can the below two generative sequences function as roped paths
through the online waste land of grand theft data?

Your Own Most Favorite Think

1. Zen Saying

2. Alfred North Whitehead

3. Our understanding of Alfred North Whitehead

4. Internalized texts, living rent-free in our minds

5. Image

6. Meme

“There are two kinds of light — the glow that
illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”
— James Thurber

7. Our inference ladder memetic shortcuts

8. Our Interpretation

9. Our Quick Scan Whether It Merits A Like Button Click, Or Not

10. Our Memory Of This Momentous Event?

11. All Of The Above, with a side order of Personal Ken Borderline Solipsist Pontification

12. The Entirety Of The Proprietary Platform Programming By Our Grand Theft Data Overlords

13. Our Wallowing In Our Shared Misery?

Could Web 3 include designing, building and homesteading different social machines?

Web 4: Chat, Cards, Tokens and Tools for Knowledge.

There’s A Space Outside Of Learned Personal Inference Short Circuits, Let’s Gather There

If we all add our own personal ken interpretation and opinion, as steeped in our own unique inference ladder meanderings, will it make for a thread?
Will we we weave knowledge in service to arcs of unfolding, moving to preferable outcomes?

Cards and Card Sessions, weaving, mapping to knowledge flows.

What yarn? What clew? What clue? Do we have the foggiest idea?

1. Let’s make a point.

2. Let’s make several points.

3. Let’s find a question.

4. Let’s gather around that question.

5. Let’s pick a few cards, cards for insight.

6. Let’s add considered, considerate, convivial, confluent, consilient, concrescent, comments to each others card comments.

7. Let’s weave thinks, things and gatherings, together.

8. Let’s shape our points into dots, into lines, into lines of inquiry, taking lines for a walk.

9. Let’s hold generative space for insights, emerging out of our metalogue, our meaning-making-moving-with.

10. Let’s cultivate a requisite variety of flows between situational awareness and preferable outcomes.

flow = structure x process

11. Let’s learn into aliveness, scaffolded by understanding “x”.

“x” = patterning

12. Let’s have actionable insights forming part of our generative closure.

13. Let’s take small steps, until luminous paths, paths made by walking.

“Trust movement.”
— Alfred Adler

Card Sessions? Yes, give me a shout and let’s find a time.

WWANWW?
What would Alfred North Whitehead Write?

“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact.
Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions.
Our reasoning grasps at straws for premises and float on gossamer for deductions.”
— Alfred North Whitehead

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John Kellden

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