What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:

Fall 2025 Recap: 400+ Attendees | 36 Designers & Special Guests We had quite the lineup of games from a fan made expansion to a social deduction and area control crossover. Thank you for coming out and supporting indie game designers. Stay tuned for our next event in late March! #boardgames

Could humans and AI become so interdependent that they form a new kind of evolutionary individual? In this op-ed, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary individuality.

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers are working backward — starting with the result to learn the rules behind it. @georgemusser.com, SFI’s 2025 Journalism Fellow, explores how this could reshape computation and self-organization in Quanta:

Chess Variant xkcd.com/3139/

Surprise! Here's a bonus release of the 52 Pickup tabletop game series, free for all to enjoy! We loved the below comic so much we came up with own rules that you can play right now. #boardgame #chess www.patreon.com/posts/52-pic...

Excited to be part of GMW Fall 2025! Thanks for organizing it and for having me, Johnny!

Game Market West is back! I'm proud to announce the tabletop games for the upcoming GMW Fall 2025, on September 21 at San Jose Guildhouse, are now available: www.gamemarketwest.com/fall-2025-ga...

Was in Tahoe this past weekend to support a few friends participating in the Broken Arrow Skyrace. #OFMOS Essential was also a key part of the great weekend. #boardgames

AI’s Biggest Threat: Young People Who Can’t Think - WSJ => Products that can help people up-level their strategic thinking and decision-making — including the games #OFMOS — will play an increasingly important role in basic #education and foundational #training. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.

Monopoly’s secret history - great little documentary by @pbs.org #games youtube.com/watch?v=IAsj...

The Example Dilemma in the Age of (Hallucinating) AI #exampledilemma www.ofmosuniverse.com/newsletter/t...

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government. By @rhersher.bsky.social

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

We released Wolfenstein 3D on this day (May 5th) in 1992. Here's a local television news report about it. What an amazing time that was. #wolfenstein #gamedev #retrogames

Cristian Mitreanu at Game Market West, Spring 2025, showcasing the handcrafted, signed-and-numbered, limited-99-edition game and business simulation OFMOS® Essential. (Get your set on Etsy www.etsy.com/listing/1821...) Credit and thanks goes to RJ and his Board Game Casual youtube channel!

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

A lenticular cloud hovers over Mount #Fuji, formed by air flowing over the peak. #Japan [photoinjapanjp]

My brief overview of the board game OFMOS® Essential at the the @gamemarketwest.bsky.social event in San Jose CA on March 23, 2025. Thanks for the recording, @Cardboard_RJ! youtube.com/clip/Ugkxf4O...

Great event! Thank you for having me with #OFMOS Essential.

When comparing 2 objects, people either rely on internal memories or run their hands and eyes over the objects to perceive similarities. The latter approach offloads cognition. It's also more effective, find SFI's Marina Dubova and Arseny Moskvichev in a recent study. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

From a series of block quotes

Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.

Great event at @gamemarketwest.bsky.social! Thanks for having me!

At @gamemarketwest.bsky.social in San Jose with OFMOS Essential. Lots of excitement. Come by if you are around.

My ever-relevant 2006 MIT Sloan Management Review article “Is Strategy a Bad Word?” The fact that the editors have serendipitously chosen a board game (chess) image for the online version is never lost on me. Love it! sloanreview.mit.edu/article/is-s...

Excited to be joining the @gamemarketwest.bsky.social event in San Jose later this month!

#PPOD: This stunning new mosaic of images from the JWST showcases the nearby star-forming cluster, NGC 1333. The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud and located approximately 960 light-years away. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana 🧪 🔭

I’ll be there with OFMOS Essential.

ANNOUNCEMENT: 2025 games are now available! I'm so proud of the designers and their hard work to make these games come to life. www.gamemarketwest.com/2025-games #boardgames

A Simple Block of Needs™ | FREE cut-and-fold 3D model of behavior for better decisions in the age of AI. Acquire a new, powerful understanding of how needs/goals are naturally structured, underlying the behavior of people, products, companies, and economies. www.ofmosuniverse.com/newsletter/a...

A Simple Block of Needs (TM) — the human behavior model you can touch #asimpleblockofneeds #behavior #needs

The #parrots of #sanfrancisco

Understanding the #why. #oneneedtheoryofbehavior #spointra

Just put together a framework for thinking about the best PM-PMM organizational setup for high performance. #product #productmarketing #pm #pmm #cpo #cmo

My LinkedIn profile in early December 2024. Will change/refine it soon, as I’m launching the game OFMOS Essential and the course BizBigPic.

Intense session of the #boardgame #OFMOS Essential

Logos, headers,…

Experimenting with the exposure setting

I designed the #boardgame variant #OFMOS Essential to create a bridge between the business-simulation-first games (i.e., OFMOS Classic, OFMOS Professional) and the thematic games (i.e., #MushroomGangs) in the OFMOS Games #portfolio. The “shuffling fields” #gamemechanic was key in that #positioning.

Signing one of the Limited 99 Edition sets of the board game OFMOS Essential

Quick teaser for OFMOS Essential

#OFMOS Essential. Limited 99 edition for early adopters and supporters available on Etsy now. Play it like an abstract, chess-like game, or as a simple corporate strategy simulation!

Important discussion to be had. The metaphors of artificial intelligence - @melaniemitchell.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Friends and fun with the #game #OFMOS Essential during the Thanksgiving week

OFMOS® Essential | (Un)serious Game of Success | Handcrafted, Signed, Numbered | Limited 99 Edition — available right now. www.etsy.com/listing/1821...