Jane McGonigal
American author and game designerWikipedia
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Nov 9, 2026
HOPEFUL (harder to write than the apocalypse)
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12:18Caitlin JacobsGUEST
So this is probably Dator's Law.
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12:20Caitlin JacobsGUEST
So I recently read Imaginable by Jane McGonigal.
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12:24KireHOST
That's Dator spelled D-A-T-O-R.
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12:26KireHOST
The book she's talking about is by Jane McGonigal spelled M-C-G-O-N-I-G-A-L.
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12:33KireHOST
No relation to the professor at Hogwarts.
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12:36KireHOST
Okay.
EP99: You Can’t Predict the Future, But You Can Prepare for It with Steph Clark
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18:42Steph ClarkGUEST
They'll fill you in what happened.
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18:44Steph ClarkGUEST
But what they started, so Jane McGonigal, who's the director of the Institute for the Future, started to get all these emails from these people who did this thing like lo-fi, forum kind of like message posting and stuff.
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18:54Steph ClarkGUEST
So there was no...
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18:55Steph ClarkGUEST
You know, we all got sent to a bunker with hazmat suits or anything like that.
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19:02Steph ClarkGUEST
I think it was like five days or so, but every day would give you a prompt of like, okay, now this information has come to light.
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19:06Steph ClarkGUEST
What do you do next? And yeah, anyway.
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19:09Steph ClarkGUEST
So 12 years later, 2020 rolls around and, you know, Jane starts getting, who's Jane, sorry, Jane McGonigal, who's the director of the Institute for the Future.
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19:17Steph ClarkGUEST
She starts getting all these emails from people being like, hey, I did that thing like 12 years ago.
# Gamifying cyber safety for the next generation — with Emily Jacometti (HackShield)
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45:24Emily JacomettiGUEST
There's this professor that's essentially the one that started it 15 years ago.
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45:29Emily JacomettiGUEST
Her name is Jane McGonigal.
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45:33Emily JacomettiGUEST
Her book is called, I think the Rules of Play or something, but her name is Jane McGonigal.
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45:39Menno van der HorstHOST
Yeah, and we'll check it for the show notes.
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45:42Menno van der HorstHOST
Yeah,
TBC Flashback - Ryan Hawk: The Pursuit of Excellence
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13:08Sara BestHOST
We talked about his five love languages this past year in one of our episodes.
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13:12Sara BestHOST
Marcus Buckingham, Jane McGonigal, Ken Blanchard, Daniel Pink, James Clear.
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13:17Sara BestHOST
The list goes on.
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13:19Sara BestHOST
So I love this idea of bringing...