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Alchemist Camp
I'm an infovore. Consuming and processing information and ideas is what I do. I read voraciously, consume many podcasts and even some video lectures.
Many marketing-driven "content" producers rehash the same tired set of ideas or start with a wonderful kernel of something new and then expand it into a full book when a blog post would have sufficed.
This podcast surfaces interesting and useful ideas, new and old. You'll hear short summaries of them and where to learn more.
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about the concept of Luck Surface Area, coined by Jason Roberts of the Techzing podcast.
Links * Luck Surface Area * Techzing * Super Thinking
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about cognitive artifacts and gives examples of both cooperative cognitive artifacts and competitive cognitive artifacts.
Links Donald Norman’s 1991 paper: Cognitive Artifacts
David Krakauer's interview on the Making Sense podcast
David Krakauer's article on AI
Episode Notes Alchemist.Camp has been running for a year and it's time for a new experiment.
In this episode, Mark gives a brief introduction and shares his motivations and plans for this podcast.