The Cultures

Dec 28, 2014

• Questions for game designers
• Categories of problems we no longer have
• Excellent names for things
• What's so good about competition?
• The symbiotic relationship between advertising and art/tech culture
• Anonymity online, again
• Getting better at getting better
• Symbol/signified
• Tourism as religion and the tourist...

Dec 21, 2014

• Exodus feedback from Margaret M.
• Quantified Self and the Apple Watch: good thing/bad thing?
• Serial and the rise of podcasts
• Is elitism bad?
• Male and female ways of thinking about time
• "So what do we think about this?": tribes and groupthink
• Coding yourself for subcultures
• Enlightenment is like an asteroid that hit...

Dec 14, 2014

• Andrea is playing Dragon Age: Inquisition
• Virtual Retirement Villages
• Adrian and Naomi's design for a dream city in Scotland

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Dec 7, 2014

• Adrian's thoughts on Exodus: Gods and Kings
• Fan/creator relationships & power dynamics
• Kind-of-embarrassing/hokey/woo-seeming things that have actually helped us (including Martha Beck's blog and Brooke Castillo's podcast)

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Nov 30, 2014

• The Rosetta scientist's awful T-shirt
• The increasing social acceptability of the tattoo
• Leaderless social movements such as Scottish independence 'Cybernats', Gamergate, Occupy, etc. (not Cybermats)

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