Coming Soon to the Atmosphere: The creator of chaos.soccer and deception.town (me) brings you Guide the Guinea Pigs! Help the Guinea Pigs follow the blue butterfly as it leads them to a place where they'll be safe and loved.
Chris Pardy
I'm unifying work from chaos.soccer and deception.town into an atproto native Game Engine (more details in 🧵) So far it's going well but what I need is more guinea pigs to test with. If you're interested in #GameDev on atproto DM me so we can talk about what you would need to develop with it.
Jul 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Making Sense of Chaos
From a pioneer in the field of complexity science and chaos theory, a plan for solving the world’s most pressing problems “Farmer convincingly argues t...
Review: ‘Chaos Monkeys’ Is a Guide to the Spirit of Silicon Valley (Published 2016)
Underneath the braggadocio and evisceration of professional nemeses in Antonio García Martinez’s book lies the beating heart of a formidable teacher.
But Let Us Cultivate Our Garden - The Millions
My garden had also been a way to make some order from chaos, find some grace through growth and change, and create an enthusiasm of my own.
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Designing Imaginative Environments by Nathan Fowkes
Join industry veteran Nathan Fowkes on a deep dive into the hows and whys of designing environments for entertainment. From creating mood with color and light, to exploring different biomes and weather, to crafting architecture and props, he will teach you how to design amazing environments that make your work stand out from the crowd.
In Depth: Miscellaneous
*this is a giant, everchanging collection of micellaneous tidbits about my life and career.* On The Moniker I had a habit as a kid of creating fictional enti...
Save by Scazrelet 🌧️ Team Tragedy · Currents
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A Showcase Of Caravan Sandwitch's Beautiful Art
We chat with art director Charles Boury about the game's various visual inspirations.
Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world
Nature - He has influenced leaders from Melinda Gates to Fidel Castro. Now, he is on a mission to save people from their preconceived ideas.
A revolution in our sense of self | Nick Chater
Psychologists have tried to plumb the depths of human motivation to make sense of our behaviour. But our inner mental world is a fiction, sustained by constant improvisation
If it Ain’t Real, Don’t Fix It — Douglas Rushkoff
We must not simply compete or cheat, but rather play “spoilsport” to the accepted game, and reveal it as a human construction.
Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
