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Already thinking of my next zine

I woke up early this morning and an idea for a second zine just popped fully-formed into my head. It's weird how the subconscious works.

After a little bit of back-and-forth with my Little Robot Friend, I'm thinking of framing it as a "field guide for designing around the mind we actually have". That's in contrast to the ultra-rational one that we'll never achieve, nor would we actually want anyway.

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A zinette, if you will

So I'm currently working on a 40-page zine on Productive Friction but if I was making a much smaller one I would absolutely be using this. In fact I still might use this and create a "zinette" (my term) to go with the main zine.

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Putting together a zine is harder than I thought...

You have to get everything correct before it goes off to get printed. My usual publishing flow involves an "oh shit" moment soon after hitting 'publish' but, because I usually publish on the web, I can fix it. Not so with printed matter.

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Just get it written

The above is a simple mindmap on the whiteboard in my home office, but it's been over 15 years since I created this large mindmap to help me with my doctoral thesis. I used XMind to create it, and I'm not entirely sure why I didn't for my zine on Productive Friction.

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My next 'zine' might be an SD card

While I was browsing Are.na for resources related to Productive Friction, I came across the above image.

Which got me thinking: what if I shipped an SD card to people? What affordances would that have which would be different to, say a blog or a website? How would it be different to a paper-based zine? 🤔

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