Cognitive Artifacts

Luck Surface Area

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 [https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surface-area] * Techzing [http://techzinglive.com] * Super Thinking [https://superthinking.com/]

Cognitive Artifacts

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 [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=120354] David Krakauer's interview on the Making Sense podcast [https://samharris.org/complexity-stupidity] David Krakauer's article on AI [http://nautil.us/blog/will-ai-harm-us-better-to-ask-how-well-reckon-with-our-hybrid-nature]

An experiment

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.