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Worksheet - Structural Features

Today's Class

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Games Unlocked: Verbal Salvage, Structural Feature Spotting, Structural Feature Field Tripping

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Outcomes - Skill: Can identify structural features of different scenarios live and from memory - An intuition for when structural features lead to norms or goals - Starts to see how poorly designed the world is from this perspective

Meaning Analysis

💩 Meaningless Time (one that felt empty, pointless, shitty):

🌳 Personal Value that was suppressed (way you couldn't be/approach things/treat people):

💍🛃 Expectations that suppressed the value (following social norms / promoting ideologies):

📈 Goals/Fears that suppressed the value (strategies to get certain outcomes):

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Where is your value harder or easier?

🌳 Personal Value:

Big family dinner w. fiance vs. Quiet dinner with best friend
Academic conference vs Camping trip
Alchoholics Anonymous Meeting vs Facebook News Feed
Gallery art opening vs. Project Meeting
Masquerade ball vs Waiting in line at grocery story
Job Interview vs Rock band jam session
Rock concert with fans vs. Subway station
YouTube vs Neighborhood Bar

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Where Would You Send a Friend?

Your friend discovered new values they want to practice more in their life. You have a cab ready to take them to one of the four situations described in the walkthrough.

For each of these values, where do you send them, and why?

Show up with vulnerable honesty
Attend to our connection more than to the outcome
Appreciate the people around me as mammals, not just as Homo Sapiens.
Treat every sentence I craft as an art project.
Speak to what I notice

Learning to Use Them

Sketch out the structural features of things he wants redesign:

University Course
Meetup Group
Brick and Mortar Cafe (for this, just a regular cafe)

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SF interview #1

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SF interview #2

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SF interview #3

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SF interview #4

Structural Features — Salvage

Overview. One person in the group shares a story about an event, workplace, relationship, or other social system in which a value is being blocked. The rest of the group tries to salvage the situation by changing it's structural features to support the value.

How to play: Start by listening to the story. Write the personal value into the box in the "Redesign Area", and fill out the Structural Features boxes below. Then drag ones you think are relevant up into the redesign area. Come up with one or more salvages for each Structural Feature that is suppressing the value.

🌳 Personal Value:

Example (filled out and dragged up)

Audience — Size: Large

Drag Structural Features here:

Example (salvaged)

Make it an intimate group setting

Salvage (Better Structural Feature):

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Audience — Size:

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Audience — Loyalty:

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Audience — Feedback:

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Audience — Time Together:

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Connections — Matchmaking:

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Connections — Interreliance:

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Connections — Depth:

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Connections — Form:

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Contribution — Pretext:

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Contribution — Pace:

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Contribution — Filter:

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Consequences — Status:

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Consequences — Stakes:

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Consequences — Durability:

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Other Features:

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Other Features:

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Other Features:

Reverse Engineering Non-Values

Beneath you'll find five goals and expectations that can crowd out values. With the structural features in mind, make a masterplan. How would you design a social space that fosters these goals or expectations?

What matters most is that they see me as professional.
To be accepted here I have to seem caring, warm and sweet.
I should be polite.
When we are together, we have a good time.
To be attractive I have to look good and seem rich.

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You'll find an overview of structural features in here.

Homework

Structural Feature Field Tripping
Find three times when a value is suppressed in a situation and a structural feature that could be changed to make it better

More things to add

MEMETIC STRUCTURAL FEATURES (easier in)

SALVAGE W/TRAINING WHEELS (multiple choice)

NORM GENERATION GAME