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Jan 29, 2024
2023 Recap
Feb 13, 2023
Recently played: The Isabel and Villagesong
Jan 23, 2023
Near future worldbuilding with Dungeon23
Jan 3, 2023
2022 Recap
Jan 2, 2023
Gaming Like It's 1927
Jun 22, 2022
Podcast Interview on Amble about Foresight Games
Apr 27, 2022
New Game: Startup Trail
Apr 5, 2022
Introducing: Curio Rav Lubin
Mar 9, 2022
1926 Game Jam Winners
Mar 7, 2022
First round of Story Synth Microgrants disbursed – plenty more remaining!
Feb 17, 2022
Story Synth Video Tours
Jan 31, 2022
Launching the Foresight Games community and website
Jan 24, 2022
Story Synth Grant Program
Jan 18, 2022
Story Synth Visual Refresh
Jan 1, 2022
Gaming Like It's 1926
Dec 30, 2021
2021 Recap
Sep 15, 2021
Award: Next Generation Foresight Practitioner – Innovative Methods
Jul 25, 2021
San Bruno Mountain
Jun 1, 2021
Money City Resources
Mar 29, 2021
Serious(ish) Games: Hindsight 2030
Mar 22, 2021
Serious Games: Future of Money (run at Mozfest)
Mar 7, 2021
Foresight Workshop: Games + Creative Writing
Feb 22, 2021
Story Synth's Games Gallery
Feb 8, 2021
Prerendering Vue for Story Synth Unfurls
Jan 30, 2021
Serious Games: Imagining Health Futures
Jan 22, 2021
Overview of Story Synth, my web platform for storytelling games
Jan 12, 2021
Playing around with the Web Monetization Protocol
Jan 6, 2021
Positive AI Economic Futures Workshop
Dec 31, 2020
2020 Recap
Sep 28, 2020
Mid-2020 Update
Dec 27, 2019
2019 Recap
Dec 25, 2019
Live Present Slides - my first Chrome Extension
Dec 25, 2019
Leveraged Play 2019 Recap
Nov 6, 2019
Published Short Story: Joan Henry vs the Algorithm
Aug 26, 2019
Back in SF!
Jul 1, 2019
Playing with the Oculus Quest: consumer VR has arrived
Jun 24, 2019
Checking out Games4Change
Jun 17, 2019
“Walking the Future” / RefactorCamp
Jun 10, 2019
MageFrame - Interactive Fiction / AI co-authorship
Jun 3, 2019
Tokyo, またね
May 27, 2019
Tokyo Game Market
May 19, 2019
Hiking the Nakasendo
May 13, 2019
More delicious Tokyo bites!
May 6, 2019
Back in Tokyo
Apr 28, 2019
Kyoto Part 2, Okayama, Takamatsu, and Naoshima
Apr 21, 2019
Kyoto & Nara
Apr 14, 2019
Mount Takao
Apr 7, 2019
Kanazawa
Mar 31, 2019
An Overnight in Hakone
Mar 23, 2019
Immersive Experiences in Tokyo
Mar 18, 2019
Week two in Japan
Mar 8, 2019
日本Quest – Assign Us Quests in Japan
Mar 4, 2019
Konnichiwa from Japan!
Feb 11, 2019
Prepping for Japan
Jan 21, 2019
Hello from Maui!
Jan 7, 2019
2018 Recap
Aug 13, 2018
Salons
Jun 11, 2018
Types of Audience Agency in Interactive Theater
May 27, 2018
A Big Week in Game Design: CIA Game and Honor Bound
May 21, 2018
Living Games Recap
May 14, 2018
Living Games this week
Apr 16, 2018
April Table Top RPG Maker Challenge
Apr 9, 2018
Magic Castle
Mar 26, 2018
Tai Chi with SF Recreation and Parks
Mar 19, 2018
Recently Played: Love in the Time of Seið
Mar 12, 2018
Learning Japanese Update 3
Feb 26, 2018
Dreamation Recap
Feb 19, 2018
Headed to Dreamation
Feb 12, 2018
Terrarium Making
Feb 5, 2018
Learning Japanese Update
Jan 22, 2018
Self-hosting my Podcast
Jan 13, 2018
Learning Japanese
Dec 28, 2017
Vacation in New Orleans
Dec 19, 2017
Episode 3 of Jamming on Games
Dec 15, 2017
Check out my Patreon!
Dec 4, 2017
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Nov 27, 2017
In-person Group Diplomacy
Oct 19, 2017
New Episode of Jamming on Games – Biosensors
Oct 16, 2017
Big Bad Con 2017 Recap
Oct 9, 2017
My New Podcast: Jamming on Games
Sep 18, 2017
Coming soon: a podcast, a short story, and a new game
Sep 4, 2017
Core Values + Wedding(!!!)
Aug 22, 2017
Blockchain and Gaming
Aug 21, 2017
Looking at Blockchain Opportunities, Today
Jul 25, 2017
Texting sweet nothings with Lambda and Twilio
Jul 20, 2017
Ghost Court in a Federal Courtroom
Jul 6, 2017
Two More Twitter Bots: Encounter Player and Govern Bot
Jun 29, 2017
Making a interactive story bot
Jun 26, 2017
Storytelling with Strangers
Jun 19, 2017
Go play the sequel to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective!
May 29, 2017
Science Fiction Handbook for the Near Future
May 15, 2017
Leaving Plethora
May 1, 2017
Exploring Iceland: Part Two
Apr 30, 2017
Exploring Iceland: Part One
Apr 10, 2017
Update on the Blades in the Dark Campaign
Apr 3, 2017
Checking out the Roosevelt Escape Room
Mar 27, 2017
A quick look around Point Reyes
Mar 12, 2017
Heading to Iceland in April – Who Should We Hang Out With?
Feb 20, 2017
Dreamation 2017 Recap
Feb 13, 2017
Dreamation this week!
Feb 6, 2017
Pistols at Dawn (10am): Dueling Lessons
Jan 30, 2017
Searching for leveraged ways to fight
Jan 9, 2017
Making procedurally generated art for our living room
Jan 3, 2017
2016 Personal Recap
Jan 1, 2017
Making an Aluminum Hanukkah Menorah
Sep 11, 2016
First time in Yosemite
Sep 3, 2016
Machining custom ships for Eclipse
Aug 28, 2016
Engaged to Avital!
Aug 22, 2016
New game draft: Premise Setting
Aug 15, 2016
Standalone version of The Idealist and new site for Condemned
Aug 8, 2016
Farewell AWS/EC2
Jul 31, 2016
New game collection: Condemned
Jul 24, 2016
Redesigning Hackers and Hustlers
Jul 18, 2016
Learning InDesign for Game Manuals
Jul 4, 2016
Getting into Podcasts
Jun 26, 2016
Building Diegetic Games: Blog and Learning Resources
Jun 20, 2016
Playing Juggernaut and The Tribunal
Jun 13, 2016
New Game: Exosolar
Jun 5, 2016
Officially Joining Plethora
May 29, 2016
Pick-up Games of Improv Comedy
May 21, 2016
Reflections on GMing My First Major RPG Campaign
May 8, 2016
Another New Game: Persona
Apr 25, 2016
Battlebots!
Apr 18, 2016
Introducing: Diegetic Games
Apr 11, 2016
Back into Rocksmith
Apr 4, 2016
“The Power Broker” Game Design Competition
Mar 28, 2016
Hackers & Hustlers Cont.
Mar 21, 2016
Skill Wedges - An RPG Subsystem
Mar 7, 2016
Check out a draft of my new RPG, Hackers + Hustlers
Feb 29, 2016
Touring the SF Bar Pilots
Feb 21, 2016
We Won Nomic-Monopoly
Feb 15, 2016
Go Play ‘The Witness’
Feb 8, 2016
Where are all the story-driven one-shot RPGs?
Feb 1, 2016
Game Design Status Update
Jan 25, 2016
“It’s All Connected!” Playtest
Jan 14, 2016
Bangalore and PNgrowth
Jan 5, 2016
Sri Lanka Part 2: Ella, Uda Walawe, Galle
Jan 3, 2016
Sri Lanka Part One: Colombo, Kandy, Sigiriya
Jan 1, 2016
Eating our way through Shanghai
Dec 24, 2015
Off to Shanghai / Sri Lanka / India
Dec 21, 2015
RPG Experiment: West Marches + Princes of the Apocalypse
Dec 14, 2015
Playtest Culture
Dec 7, 2015
Panorama Draft
Nov 28, 2015
Agency and Narrative in RPGs
Nov 23, 2015
Panorama: Playtest 4
Nov 16, 2015
Panorama: Playtest 3
Nov 9, 2015
Spoke at Civic Hackathon
Nov 2, 2015
Voting Tools
Oct 26, 2015
Second Wash U Coding Bootcamp
Oct 19, 2015
Big Bad Con
Oct 12, 2015
Returning to Frontiers (game)
Oct 5, 2015
Back to India / Planning for Sri Lanka
Sep 28, 2015
Moving Day
Sep 21, 2015
Tour of the SF Mead Company
Sep 13, 2015
Tour of the Santa Clara Advanced Water Purification Center
Sep 7, 2015
More musings on RPGs and GMing
Aug 31, 2015
Anonymity, Content Creation, and Distribution
Aug 24, 2015
Quick Trip to Chicago
Aug 17, 2015
Where to start as a first time GM
Aug 10, 2015
Machi Koro and Five Tribes: Two More Quick Game Reviews
Aug 3, 2015
Tsuro and Fluxx: Two Quick Game Reviews
Jul 27, 2015
Finished an Imperial Assault Campaign
Jul 18, 2015
Launching Democracy.io
Jul 12, 2015
Later Tech IPOs and Index Funds
Jul 6, 2015
Opera in the Ballpark
Jun 29, 2015
Some more one-shot RPGs
Jun 21, 2015
Quick Game Reviews: Snake Oil, Imperial Assault, Welcome to the Dungeon
Jun 15, 2015
A Day at the Races
Jun 7, 2015
I’ve Joined FactoryX
Jun 1, 2015
My brother returns to SF
May 25, 2015
Worker Coops in SF
May 18, 2015
Work / Life Balance, Integration, and Beyond
May 9, 2015
A week with FactoryX
May 4, 2015
Exploring Austin
Apr 27, 2015
Legible Collaboration Contracts
Apr 19, 2015
Future of Work and Labor: Long-term Trends and Possible Futures
Apr 8, 2015
Games, Narrative, and Story - my Refactor Camp 2015 Talk
Apr 6, 2015
Experiences with Dungeon World
Mar 30, 2015
Just Taught a Coding Bootcamp
Mar 23, 2015
Future of Work and Labor: Tactics for Individuals
Mar 16, 2015
Future of Work and Labor: Advice for Companies
Mar 6, 2015
Future of Work and Labor: New Forms of Organization
Feb 24, 2015
Future of Work and Labor: Commoditization of Labor
Feb 20, 2015
Future of Work and Labor: Increasing Productivity Opens Myriad Opportunities
Feb 16, 2015
The Future of Work and Labor: Macro Trends
Feb 8, 2015
Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Continued
Jan 26, 2015
Link post
Jan 23, 2015
Website Redesign
Jan 17, 2015
Future Press Releases
Jan 11, 2015
Costa Rica
Dec 29, 2014
2015 Goals
Dec 28, 2014
2014 Recap
Dec 23, 2014
Pen-and-Paper Role Playing Games
Dec 15, 2014
Frontiers: Second Playest
Dec 8, 2014
The Uncanny Valley in Narrative and Worldbuilding
Dec 1, 2014
Frontiers - My Next Storytelling Game
Nov 24, 2014
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (game)
Nov 12, 2014
Trying 100% Food (Soylent Competitor)
Nov 6, 2014
Competitive Advantage of Cooperatives and DAOs
Nov 3, 2014
Frustrations with AWS
Oct 27, 2014
Journey to the End of the Night
Oct 20, 2014
Exploring Taiwan and Malaysia
Oct 11, 2014
Wrapping Up Plotypus (For Now)
Sep 29, 2014
Collaboration Trends
Sep 29, 2014
A Great 28th Birthday
Sep 22, 2014
Citydash
Sep 15, 2014
Plotypus Has Launched!
Sep 10, 2014
Exploring Northern New Mexico
Sep 6, 2014
Plotypus Development Process
Aug 26, 2014
Plotypus Intro Story
Aug 20, 2014
Porting Ecosystems to p5.js
Aug 18, 2014
Plotypus: Collaborative Storytelling Card Game
Aug 11, 2014
Pooled ride sharing revisted
Aug 11, 2014
Effective Group Sizes
Aug 4, 2014
Two Hikes: King Mountain and Mt. Tam
Jul 28, 2014
Rogue-like card game - first test
Jul 21, 2014
Starting Research on Reputation Systems
Jul 14, 2014
Rogue-like card game
Jul 7, 2014
Single Tasking for Blocks of Time
Jun 27, 2014
India: Final Week
Jun 18, 2014
Innovate Delhi: Week 2+
Jun 11, 2014
Sightseeing in India
Jun 10, 2014
Innovate Delhi - Week One
Jun 7, 2014
Nepal: Kathmandu and Rafting
Jun 4, 2014
Trekking in Nepal (Days Three and Four)
Jun 1, 2014
Trekking in Nepal (Days One and Two)
May 23, 2014
In Delhi!
May 19, 2014
A Lubin Comes to SF, A Lubin Leaves SF
May 12, 2014
Nation Building Continued - and a bit on Angular
May 5, 2014
Nation Building Redux
Apr 28, 2014
Innovation in Nepal?
Apr 21, 2014
Tech in TV - Silicon Valley vs Betas
Apr 14, 2014
From Pull to Push: My Shifting Engagement on Facebook and Twitter
Apr 7, 2014
Technology and the Fungibility of Capitals
Mar 31, 2014
Hiking in Marin
Mar 24, 2014
Suburbia review
Mar 17, 2014
Going to India!
Mar 10, 2014
Hiking Ano Nuevo
Mar 3, 2014
Refactor Camp 2014
Feb 24, 2014
Learning to Dance
Feb 17, 2014
Criteria for choosing projects
Feb 10, 2014
Web Audio - early results
Feb 3, 2014
Experimenting with HTML5 Web Audio
Jan 27, 2014
Quick thoughts on Eclipse
Jan 20, 2014
Quantified Productivity - initial results
Jan 6, 2014
2014 Goals
Dec 30, 2013
2013 Recap
Dec 23, 2013
Building my own PC
Dec 16, 2013
More Games: Android Netrunner, Love Letter, Hanabi, Tammany Hall
Dec 9, 2013
Rocksmith thoughts, after one month
Dec 2, 2013
Laws and Norms, Complexity and Reputation
Nov 25, 2013
My Cognitive Exoskeleton is Atrophying My Brain
Nov 18, 2013
Microscope - awesome game (and worldbuilding tool)
Nov 11, 2013
Review: Rocksmith 2014
Nov 4, 2013
Fun-employment Update
Oct 23, 2013
Funemployment Protip: Free Larkspur Ferry
Oct 20, 2013
Thoughts on Startup School 2013
Oct 14, 2013
Side Project: Jam-Sync
Oct 7, 2013
Weekend Project: Acting Karaoke
Sep 17, 2013
Failing at Fun-employment?
Sep 3, 2013
Last day at Jive
Jul 15, 2013
Photo post
Jul 8, 2013
Even more games!
Jul 1, 2013
Another summer of board games
Jun 19, 2013
Exploring Scotland
Jun 18, 2013
London / Scotland
Jun 15, 2013
London / Ungrounded
Jun 10, 2013
London!
Jun 3, 2013
Arrested Development: Season 4 - final thoughts
May 27, 2013
Arrested Development: Season 4 - First Thoughts
May 14, 2013
Mexico City: Day 3
May 13, 2013
Mexico City: Day 2
May 12, 2013
Mexico City: Day 1
May 6, 2013
Nation Building Update (5/5/2013)
Apr 29, 2013
Book Suggestions?
Apr 22, 2013
Nation Building: Decisions
Apr 15, 2013
Video Chat Acting / Improv Idea
Apr 8, 2013
Nation Builder - Dynamic Growth
Apr 1, 2013
Update on Nation Builder
Mar 25, 2013
Quick Update on Various Games
Mar 18, 2013
Results from 'The Listserve' Experiment
Mar 11, 2013
Selected for The Listserve
Mar 2, 2013
Nation Builder - Update 2
Feb 25, 2013
Nation Builder (Game Update)
Feb 16, 2013
New Role: Corporate Development at Jive
Feb 11, 2013
Netflix / House of Cards
Feb 4, 2013
Game idea, inspired by 'The Origins of Political Order'
Jan 28, 2013
Dat-GUI Tutorial
Jan 21, 2013
Site Revamp - Learning Visual Design
Jan 14, 2013
Bro-gramming (teaching my brother to code)
Jan 4, 2013
2012 Recap
Dec 10, 2012
The Game of Thrones Board Game
Dec 3, 2012
Space Alert - Best co-op board game?
Nov 25, 2012
Japan: Day Seven (Final Day)
Nov 24, 2012
Japan: Days Five and Six
Nov 22, 2012
Japan: Day Four
Nov 21, 2012
Japan: Day Three
Nov 20, 2012
Japan: Day Two
Nov 19, 2012
Japan: Day One
Nov 18, 2012
Off to Japan
Nov 12, 2012
Meetings.io Acquisition
Nov 5, 2012
A New Type of Entrepreneurship
Oct 21, 2012
Optimum Accent for Communications Over Noise?
Oct 8, 2012
Help me with writing inspiration
Oct 1, 2012
Board Games and the Mechanics of Fun
Sep 24, 2012
A Few Short Stories of Mine
Sep 16, 2012
Short Story Notes, the Reverse of 'A Sound of Thunder'
Sep 10, 2012
23andMe: Ancestry Results
Sep 3, 2012
23andMe Results (I'm 3.2% Neanderthal)
Aug 27, 2012
Tooth Fairy and Inflation
Aug 15, 2012
Link post
Aug 13, 2012
Just Signed Up for 23andMe
Jul 23, 2012
Thought Experiment: AR Lie Detection
Jul 16, 2012
Technological Unemployment and 'Race Against the Machine'
Jul 9, 2012
SciFi for the Startup Soul
Jul 1, 2012
Apache -> Node.js on AWS
Jun 25, 2012
Fixing Unemployment: Part 3
Jun 18, 2012
Greenermind Summit
Jun 11, 2012
Fixing Unemployment: Part 2
Jun 4, 2012
Fixing Unemployment: Part 1
May 28, 2012
I'm Joining the Meetings.io Team
May 21, 2012
Thought Experiment: Temporally Optimized News Feed
May 8, 2012
Give Mom a Web Presence
May 4, 2012
Reflection: one year after graduation
May 4, 2012
Ditch the Conference & Hype Up Weekend
Apr 30, 2012
Ecosystem - a little art project
Apr 23, 2012
Thought Experiment: Uber meets Super Shuttle
Apr 15, 2012
Link post
Apr 9, 2012
Working to Music - The Magic of Miles Davis
Apr 1, 2012
Just-in-time Education
Mar 20, 2012
Meaning and Silicon Valley
Mar 17, 2012
Learning via Projects
Mar 11, 2012
Siri as Gatekeeper - The Next Wave of Features
Mar 6, 2012
Data Visualization for Reddit Karma
Mar 2, 2012
Level Up: Intermediate Programmer
Feb 22, 2012
Eagerly Anticipating: Google Glasses + Social Intelligence
Feb 13, 2012
Playing with Amazon Web Servers
Feb 12, 2012
MVP > Building a Product
Feb 2, 2012
RandyLubin.com Redesign
Jan 30, 2012
Cognitive Surplus: Retirees
Jan 30, 2012
Cognitive Surplus: Intro
Jan 23, 2012
Stand-ups and FunEmployment
Jan 16, 2012
Two New Series of Posts
Jan 16, 2012
Steal This Idea: Whispernet as a Service
Jan 9, 2012
New App: Customer Lifetime Value
Jan 9, 2012
CSS3 Tools
Jan 4, 2012
Listing of Free Online Stanford Courses (Winter 2012)
Jan 2, 2012
New Year's Resolution - Blog More
Jan 2, 2012
2011 Recap
Apr 10, 2011
Building a Django Web App
Apr 3, 2011
Creative Commons
Jan 29, 2011
New Homepage
Dec 25, 2010
Learning to Code
Jun 29, 2010
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