The games designer seeks to influence the structure of thought. Manipulating the kinds of thoughts the player thinks while playing the game. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2024/08/17/2419-shaping-thought/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectrese…

I don’t think there is a single place in England that I know better than those 6 feet of sand in font of a shed in Broadstairs. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/08/10/2418-six-feet-of-england/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://thejaymo.net/zine Pe…

What I've been up to and where I am elsewhere on the web this summer Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/08/04/2417-summer-doings/ Solarpunk Is Dreaming Green: https://youtu.be/Xq16vAsB18Q Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ My Zine! https://thejaymo.net/zine Permanently moved…

Ivan, lost in the chaos of modern life, takes a walk by the river seeking solace. A modern fairy story. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/07/21/2416-hole-of-tears/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo…

Due to my Aphantasia, I also have SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory), I never remember anything in the first person. This is why I keep a diary. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/07/13/2415-first-person-memory/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in …

Where did modern bureaucracy come from? Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, the Father of the Military Academy, or the ‘man who made West Point’. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/07/07/2414-the-origins-of-modern-bureaucracy/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, wri…

We should abandon the external 'Battle for Attention' and instead engage in an internal 'Conflict of Disinterest' Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/06/29/2413-conflict-of-disinterest/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo…

Don’t you think that the surface of the Internet feels super flat right now? I don’t just mean it's UX but the whole internet. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/06/22/2412-surface-flatness/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @the…

Right now AI is the worst it’s ever going to be. It costs about 60 bucks a day to house a state of the art little computer person powered by an LLM in a virtual world. But what will the world be like when it costs 60p? Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/06/01/2411-little-computer-people/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Y…

People I hang out with online all at once seem to have begun questioning the necessity of weekly creative production. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/05/25/2410-algorithmic-pressure/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo…

I propose that everything that occurs between the decision to plant a tree and the full expression of its canopy is short-term thinking. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/05/18/2409-short-term-thinking/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and rec…

Reaction videos were (and still) are considered ‘low effort’. At worst a parasitic grift. Leveraging the creative work of others for social clout Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/05/11/2408-reaction-re-consumption/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, wr…

There’s a word we used to use in the 1980’s and 90’s to describe a user with such a deep understanding of a technological-system. A Wizard. Tetris players have gone so deep, and become such powerful wizards, that they can avoid the end of the world. Full Show Notes: http://www.thejaymo.net/2024/05/04/2407-going-deep/ Support the show! Subscribe to …

The moment I finished editing this week’s show about Cal Newport's Slow Productivity, I realised to my horror that I’d made it before. Doing the things that actually need doing, when they need getting done? Finishing Projects? It turns out that this is probably the greatest challenge of my life. I’m at a total loss. Full Show Notes: https://www.the…

A review of HG Wells’ most important work, Little Wars. The book that changed the way table top war games were played and paved the way for the development of role-playing and modern war games. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/04/20/2405-little-wars-of-the-worlds/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently mov…

Like the Metaverse, history is repeating itself with zero contact with the last time a lot of smart people had conversations about AI Agents. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/04/13/2404-ai-agent-metaphors/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and…

I like many millennials, believed I didn’t need a watch because since the year 2000 I always had a mobile phone with me. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/04/08/301-2403-where-is-the-time/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thej…