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#3 | Magic Circles - Part 2

Last week I wrote about how Rules and Play work and interact to create a magic circle - a conceptual space where the ’normal’ world melts away is replaced by...

#2 | Magic Circles Part 1

I wrote most of this more than a month ago, before the recent wave of police violence and protests. And while the ideas are still resonant for me, it hasn’t...

#1 : On Grokking

Prologue: What is this thing? Some of you know that I have been doing a strange thing called a learning marathon the last few months. I might have talked...