Category — Microblog Mondays

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The New York Times had a thought-provoking opinion piece (that I hopefully shared as a gift link) that said people should wait to use AI tool until they were in their 40s.

They write: “We have been so quick to treat access to new technology as an inevitability that we have failed to question whether every powerful tool should be placed in the hands of every developing mind the moment it becomes available.”

Do little kids really need the Internet, or should they learn to find information in books? Should we encourage everyone to type, or encourage slower thought through handwritten expression? I didn’t agree with everything the person said, but they gave me a lot to think about.

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Did you know that Merriam-Webster (the dictionary people) has games? Like a lot of games, if you also count all of the games at Encyclopedia Britannica because they’re part of the same company? And some of them are a lot of fun?

I particularly like Tagline. And I thought I would like Victordle, where you play against other people in solving Wordle first, except the first person I paired with guessed it in one try, which made me think it was rigged. I tried again, and we worked together to get to the correct word.

Take a look at the long list on the left sidebar.

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I am normally not a fan of games with timers. Even if I tell myself that I won’t care about time, I still care about time. I try to work quickly. Or I cheat and turn off the phone to think. In any case, I usually click away the moment I see a timer that I cannot turn off in settings.

But I like 18 words because the timer doesn’t feel unreasonable. I’m not working frantically. It’s just trying to get me to focus. The timer resets with each word, and you rarely need more than 30 seconds per word. If you mess up one word, the game doesn’t stop. You keep your place and try again.

18 words is a gentle word unscrambling game, perfect for even people who dislike timers.

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It’s a Monday, which means I am likely sharing a game. This one is super challenging, but I love it. You have to get from Point A to Point B, naming all the countries in the proper order.

One mistake I kept making at first was starting with the wrong country or filling in the countries between willy-nilly. To get a perfect score, you need to get the route in the correct order in the shortest number of moves.

Enjoy.

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One more game that I’ve been playing for months and seemingly never wrote about is Neighbourle. You get a country highlighted on a map, with its neighbours in grey, and you have to state the names of all of the countries that border the daily country.

I can usually guess a country based on the number of kilometers and the direction, but this is harder because you have to know the names and shapes of every country that touches it. Even if it’s just a small piece of the border.

Enjoy.

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