“Field Notes from the Metaverse” will be a book that documents the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse and virtual worlds.
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Field notes log #29
This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 152,831 Writing As predicted, polishing the blockchain & Web3 section was a breeze, at least compared to the previous one. There were some changes here and there, especially sharpening the field notes. It’s a…
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Field notes log #28
This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 150,185 Writing I just cracked the 150k! To be honest, I don’t have a word budget for the book. It will have as much words as it needs. And I absolutely expect the editors…
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Field notes log #27
This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 147,130 Writing 49 of 75 chapters are ready for editing. That may not sound like good progress from the 41 chapters I reported two weeks ago, but I’m very happy with it. The last…
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Field notes log #26
This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 142,713 Writing I am happily typing away and 41 of 75 chapters are ready for editing. This included a couple of chapters that needed significant restructuring. I already knew that I had been sloppy…
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Field notes log #25
This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 141,579 Let’s scrap the “weekly”, shall we? Writing I am in the process of going through every chapter, unifying the tone and style of the book, and making sure that there is a logical…
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Field notes weekly #24
This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 137,305 Happy New Year! It has been a year since I decided to embark on this silly side quest. And so far, playing a full-time author has been awesome. As I dug deep into the…
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Field notes weekly #23
This is a weekly update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 123,588 Writing Ok, fine, Dungeons & Dragons gets its own chapter. The book already talked a lot about D&D, but only in the surrounding chapters. I talked about how D&D as a trend opened…
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Interview with Jay Springett: Dungeons & Dragons and the Metaphors of the Metaverse
Jay Springett is a strategist and writer with a background in tech consulting and the philosophy of arts. He is currently an instructor at The New Centre and has guest lectured many university courses around the world. He speaks regularly about the future, technology and regenerative culture at events such as DevConnect (TR), Unsound Festival…
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Field notes weekly #22
This is a weekly update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 119,237 Experimenting The Microsoft Word app for mobile has this really neat “Read Aloud” feature that recently got a update with new (and finally good sounding) voices. Last week I loaded in my current…
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Field notes (not really) weekly #21
This is a weekly update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 120,489 Writing Yeah, I haven’t been good at updating the blog. There are reasons. But leaving my totally healthy and professional obsession with Dan Olson aside, I did get a lot of writing done.…
“Field Notes from the Metaverse” will be a book that documents the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse. This blog documents the writing of the book, provides additional context & materials