{"id":1803,"date":"2010-08-26T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T06:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2010-08-26T08:26:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T06:26:47","slug":"5-things-i%e2%80%99m-thinking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/08\/26\/5-things-i%e2%80%99m-thinking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things I\u2019m thinking about"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have Alper<\/a> to blame for this. Alice<\/a> started it, many<\/a> followed (some well worth reading) and now the meme has crossed the pond it seems. I know, we’re a bit slow in NL. So, what am I thinking about?<\/p>\n

My upcoming holiday<\/strong>, which will be the first break in over a year. I am planning to completely unplug, which I am both dreading and looking forward to. It seems the longer I am self-employed, the harder it gets to just leave work behind for an extended period of time. It seems crazy to be worried about the continuity of my business when I’m only away for a week on a freaking Wadden island<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today marks the last day of final exams at the HKU and I am lead to wonder about the future of design education<\/strong> as it happens there and at other similar institutes around the world. It often seems too closed off from the outside world, too insular. I am looking forward to tangling with this subject matter more in an upcoming project with River Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Choosing has never come easy to me. In the past I have found it painful to choose between disciplines, skills to develop, projects to work on. And at some point I sort of decided to stop forcing choices and find ways to have them all mesh. I think that finally I am getting to a spot where I am comfortable in not choosing. So now I wonder why that is, what the value of refusing to choose<\/strong> is and what that means for creative disciplines.<\/p>\n

I am essentially pessimistic about the future of this world<\/strong>. I have a very hard time conceiving of any future, in fact. Recently I found myself in a workshop aimed at making plans for an event in 2015 and I was totally lost. Having learnt this about myself the next question is how to act – I don’t wan’t to “play dead” as Bruce Sterling<\/a> would say – so what’s the alternative?<\/p>\n

Since it is at the core of my business I am thinking a lot about domains where games could go next<\/strong>. I am thinking a lot about citizen engagement, particularly when it comes to public policy, but I am mostly stumped about making inroads into that area locally.<\/p>\n

There you have it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You have Alper to blame for this. Alice started it, many followed (some well worth reading) and now the meme has crossed the pond it seems. I know, we’re a bit slow in NL. So, what am I thinking about? My upcoming holiday, which will be the first break in over a year. I am … Continue reading 5 things I\u2019m thinking about<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[625],"tags":[536,19,215,633,259,840,838,837,77,839,836],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-choice","tag-design","tag-education","tag-futures","tag-games","tag-generalists","tag-holidays","tag-ideas","tag-memes","tag-specialists","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}