BlogHide Resteemsdanmaruschak (72)in tabletop-rpg • 15 days agoGo With the Flow?(cross-posted from my substack ) Go With the Flow? Thoughts after reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience The concept of the “flow state”…danmaruschak (72)in tabletop-rpg • 4 months agoWhen the magic circle collapses(cross-posted from my Substack ) When the magic circle collapses Does philosophy of games say anything useful about fun? My current philosophical model is that games are about exercising…danmaruschak (72)in tabletop-rpg • 4 months agoLearn It by Heart?(cross-posted from my Substack ) Learn It by Heart? Thoughts after reading Stafford Beer’s The Heart of Enterprise I left my previous piece on Stafford Beer in an ambivalent place…danmaruschak (72)in hive-151113 • 4 months agoCould multisig accounts controlled by witnesses be used for new chain features?Due to the new sidechain proposal I was thinking about the tension between the understandable desire people have for new features to be integrated into the main Steem chain and the difficulty of…danmaruschak (72)in crochet • 5 months agoPick-up and Ringo: More amigurumi chihuahuasAs I mentioned in my previous post about the amigurumi chihuahua that I made from the pattern in the book Ami Ami Dogs , I liked the overall design but wasn't a fan of the way the various…danmaruschak (72)in hive-127586 • 5 months agoWould some random votes improve the ecosystem?Ever since I've been thinking about the idea of some systems incentivizing people to get stuck in rigid patterns and the meaning of entropy in the context of Information Theory , I've been…danmaruschak (72)in tabletop-rpg • 5 months agoThe Case of (Stafford) Beer(cross-posted from my Substack ) The Case of (Stafford) Beer Thoughts after reading “Brain of the Firm” The 1970s-era “management cybernetics” work of Stafford Beer has been getting…danmaruschak (72)in crochet • 5 months agoAmigurumi ChihuahuaAfter my eyeball creatures project I wanted to take a brief break from working on my own patterns and crochet something from a pre-existing pattern to hopefully be more relaxing since I could…danmaruschak (72)in crochet • 6 months agoAll Those In Favor, Vote EyeIn the comments of my previous crochet project post , @flowertron linked to a video that showed a crochet technique for diagonal color changes. It's actually two different techniques, one for…danmaruschak (72)in proposal • 6 months agoProposal for Historical Wallet ViewWhile it's fine for viewing your current holdings, the Steemit Wallet page is very limited when it comes to analyzing your financial activity. It only shows recent past transactions, and those in a…danmaruschak (72)in crochet • 6 months agoCandyman KaneAfter I finished with my Christmas gift crochet project I decided to do some experiments related to diagonal color changes, because I knew that sometimes I could get a nice angled transition…danmaruschak (72)in crochet • 7 months agoI Wish You Amigurumi ChristmasFor the past several years my brothers, sisters, and I have been doing a hand-made gift-exchange for Christmas (often hand-made Christmas ornaments of some kind). For this year's gift for my sister…danmaruschak (72)in commentary • 7 months agoDo human organizations need cheaters? Why or why not?@remlaps proposed an intriguing question of the year for people to grapple with: Do human organizations need cheaters? Why or why not? My initial, instinctive response was "no", so I…danmaruschak (72)in hive-127586 • 8 months agoVote/Unvote PairsIn the comments thread of @remlaps recent post I started thinking about the idea of handing off signed-but-unposted transactions that could be posted later as an alternative to coordinated…danmaruschak (72)in hive-127586 • 8 months agoWould DAO/SPS proposals based on an "Advance" funding model be supported?One of the challenges of the DAO/SPS proposal model is that proposal voters need to have a high degree of confidence that the project is worthwhile before voting yes on it. That is doubly…danmaruschak (72)in crochet • 8 months agoHair of the Vampire That Bit You: More amigurumi experimentsOne of the persistent questions I've had in my previous amigurumi figure experiments is how much of the asymmetries I've been seeing are due to the "twist" effect of doing continuous amigurumi…danmaruschak (72)in tabletop-rpg • 9 months agoWhat About What It’s About?(cross-posted from my Substack ) What About What It’s About? Thinking about how communication is nested in hierarchies, but also isn’t When we communicate we don’t just communicate the…danmaruschak (72)in crochet • 10 months agoAmigurumi Superhero 2: Mask ExperimentsAs I mentioned in my post about the Steem Superhero , I thought the "mask" element of the pattern needed work, so that's what I decided to focus on for my next experiment. Based on how the…danmaruschak (72)in steem • 10 months agoSteem Rewards Formulas Deep-diveOne of the advantages of blockchain technology is that there’s a level of transparency because it’s all based on open-source code. But in practice it’s not always easy to extract that information. I…danmaruschak (72)in crochet • 10 months agoAmigurumi Steem SuperheroI wanted to try doing some color-changes and other cosmetic details with the character pattern I've been designing . I thought a superhero character would be a good idea for that. Since I've been…
