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The future/present/past of design It has been a wonderful start to the year, but as I said on the first STEPS Collective of the year on Friday, I can’t...
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The Creative Quartet On the 7th June 2012, the first pack of Artefact Cards was sold from a freshly-minted Shopify site, built by someone who only vaguely...
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Letter from a Steward, by John V Willshire, for Hardeep Kaur's social moonshot 'Age of the Steward'.
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Organise, don’t agonise I was reading Leah Reich’s excellent newsletter, Meets Most, this morning. And this phrase, from Anand Giridharadas’ reflections on...
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Well hi there. How’re you? Nice summer? </smoltolk> Let’s just crack on with it shall we…? Cognitive Debt Yes, Cognitive Debt has become a repeating theme...
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What’s my ideal LLM? Part three. Congratulations for getting this far. (If you’ve been sent this, part 2 is here.) Your reward, if we can call it that, is...
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Cogitating on Cognitive Debt And so, part 2. I’m continuing from the last newsletter with a bridge between the Latourian turn of things (“complex assemblies...
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Show The Thing, Change The Thing This appears to be the 250th newsletter I’ve written. Sometimes you approach a significant number and you tense up a little....
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Creating the space for citizenship I’m going to talk about a new card that made its way on to the board last Friday. It says “creating the space for...
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You’re nowt but a policy bateleur Nick wanted to know about this card. N.B. - I hope Nick wanted all that follows, rather than just wondering why I have...
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I only know what I think if I write it down… I was grabbed by this quote in the excellent interview Paul Graham Raven did with Cameron Tonkinwise (first part...
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Teachable, Wearable Futures Good morning It is a crisp and sunny morning here in Sussex, which despite everything brings a drop of optimism to start the day...
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A lively start to the year …and like that, January is almost over. I know, right?!! Me too!! But with that comes lots of things I could review, tell you...
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Bees, T-Shirts, Singing, Writing and SXSW London Hello Every time I write ‘next time on this newsletter’, it seems the world shifts and new things take...
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Bright Friday Dear First things first. From the Artefact Cards perspective, we have never engage with Black Friday, the now all-encompassing, pervasive...
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Papercamp - this Saturday in London Well hello A very short email today, with the promise of a longer one afterwards. It has been a busy summer of talks,...
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Look, Mum, I’m on the telly A short edition of the newsletter today, driven mostly by the fact that I received an email on Wednesday this week. It said that...
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Things to do, places to go Well, hello there. This edition of the newsletter is full to the brim with things you can attend, use, watch, enjoy. We might as...
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Back to the Future. Again. Afternoon, folks Today's newsletter is a big old collection of things. Like a month of blog posts in one place. This is fuelled by...
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Sending up a flare Hello there We are gathering for our next Steps Collective event tomorrow, Tuesday, 1.30pm GMT, online only via Zoom - the link is here...