Cards for Insight: Collapse
In a network, denial, confusion and coping strategies.
Card: Unsettling Normalcy
“This is how it happens. Precisely what you’re
feeling now. The numbing litany of bad news.
The ever rising outrages. People suffering,
dying, and protesting all around you,
while you think about dinner.”
— Indrajit Samarajiva
… denial, confusion and coping strategies …
Card: Transition
Humans in
transition.
… we made it? what happened? we happened …
… circles of concern, influence, confluence and conversations
that mind, enact, cultivate, transform and matter …
Card: Information
The measure of information is proportional
to conversations that mind, enact, cultivate,
transform and matter, in light of differences
making a lasting, convivial difference.
… pick two cards and add your thoughts, prompts, insights, individual and small group genius annotations, book excerpts and prompt responses, between …
The Unsettling Normalcy of Societal Collapse
— Jason Kottke
Indi Samarajiva lived through the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka that killed an estimated 80,000–100,000 people over 30 years. He cautions that societal collapse can feel quite normal for many people — but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening. I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.
… pick two cards and add your thoughts, prompts, insights, individual and small group genius annotations, book excerpts and prompt responses, between …
Life After Covid
“Hannah explains in her thread how low processing speed affects
everything from basic communication with people (talking, texting)
not only in how long it takes but how much information you understand
about what you are reading/hearing.”
… pick two cards and add your thoughts, prompts, insights, individual and small group genius annotations, book excerpts and prompt responses, between …
Cards for Insight: Q&U
- Gather a small group genius around a generative question
- Pick two cards and add your thoughts between
- Engage in conversation and cultivate shared understanding in light of intelligence augmentation and intelligence turned ability
- Take practical wisdom as a stopping rule and generative closure
- Create Q&U cardcasts, forming interactive supersets to the more commonly known Q&A podcast formats
Q: Questions; U: Understanding, see cards below.
Cards for Insight: Formats for cultivating shared understanding
Since 103% of all co-creation of value resides in the links, feedback
loops, the in-between spaces and unique insights and annotations
from participants, let’s unfold a way to address this:
Cards for Insight
1. Addressing how we relate to information and meaning-making.
2. Pick two cards and add your thoughts between.
3. Notice social stigmergy and reflect on attention.
4. Design and homestead social learning systems in light of intelligence, networked intelligence and systems intelligence.
5. Experience and learn to use Cards for Insight — As easy as a card game, as powerful as a social machine.
6. Understand how to add value in light of situational awareness.
7. Interact to the full extent of your ability.
8. Map moves conducive to knowledge mapping and flows.
9. Play with frames, frame and reframe, move beyond rigid narratives.
10. Cultivate shared understanding in light of generative closure.
11. Take thought conducive to convivial conversation.
12. Extend conversations, at card formats, small group genius scope, social social media reach, networked distribution and social machine scale.
13. Coordinate by applying design cybernetics conducive to a requisite variety of paths between attention turned situational awareness and preferable outcomes.
… pick two cards and add your thoughts, prompts, insights, individual and small group genius annotations, book excerpts and prompt responses, between …
Card: Question
A question is mind rediscovering
the generative nature of relating
with reality and transforming it
into possibility.
… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …
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?
… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …
Card: Cards
Cards are play, possibility space,
unfolding path, understanding and
shared understanding affordances.
… does this mean that it’s all about what the Card does,
rather than what it is? …
… yes …
Your move:
… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …
More lines and cards here:
https://johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-insight-lines-d23cd4391855
