A card game that makes visible the invisible protocols structuring digital systems and social interactions. Players engage with protocol mechanics through gameplay to develop literacy around how rules, standards, and agreements govern technological and social life.
Protocol Cards is a card-based game designed by Waqar and Mashal that uses archetypes like Outsider, Heretic, Sage, and Maintainer to explore protocol dynamics and social roles. The game serves as a playable framework for understanding how different character types interact within protocol-based systems.
Summer of Protocols
Protocol Gameboard is a parlor game designed to explore different social roles and archetypes (Outsider, Sage, Heretic, Drifter, Clinger, Maintainer) through interactive gameplay mechanics. The game transforms abstract protocol concepts into embodied social dynamics, allowing players to experience how different participants navigate shared systems and rule structures.
Summer of Protocols
In this kickoff session for Protocol School 2025, an unnamed orientation leader uses the bristlemouth fish (the most abundant vertebrate on Earth, yet unknown to most people) as a metaphor for how protocols pervade daily life unnoticed, introducing 'protocol watching' and 'protocol built' as practices for cultivating awareness. Tim then argues protocols are 'engineered arguments' that produce Whitehead advances, using an Ethereum flash-loan transaction and the concept of 'hardness' (atoms, institutions, now cryptography/code) to show how Ethereum functions as a 'mesoprotocolized world.' Timber closes by advocating a meso-level focus for protocol intervention, introducing the 'carrier bag theory of management,' tension-based protocol design, and a capability maturity model for AI adoption, alongside housekeeping for the week's certificate program.
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