Hello ,You know those ups and downs dealing with uncertainties of the pandemic and everything else going on? This week really felt like a down one in terms of my general mood. Still, I'm quick to bash myself for not progressing as much as I would have liked, though of course I haven't been idle at all. I worked and rehearsed my webinar workshop taking place on Tuesday 23rd June, I mentioned it last week but in case you haven't seen it, you should totally join if you can!I'm calling it Ice Cream for Everyone's Strategy Playground, I will talk about the benefits of a play state of mind for strategy, and we will do an exercise via a collaborative whiteboard tool for The Network One's Indie Forum Digital. It's Tuesday 23rd June 2020 at 6am New York EST / 11am UK / 12pm Paris CET / 3:30pm India / 6pm Singapore and Hong Kong - and it's free to attend (sign up in link). If you are looking for an inspiring, playful, thought-provoking speaker for an online, or perhaps even a real world event in French or in English, reply and we can have a chat about it.I have been sharing about my interest in the newly launched Roam Research, a tool for note taking, writing, and knowledge management that looks extremely interesting. So much so, that our Teaching Tangents conversation with James D'Souza today revolved around "How to revise?" and extended to studying, managing knowledge, facilitating ideas, note taking, and more. Check it out here: Teaching Tangents #5: "How to revise (research, study, prepare)?"

Given it felt a bit of a 'down' week, I actually turned the streaming services on and binged watched a few things.I finally watched The Boys on Amazon Prime and it is super violent, gory at times, and also good fun to see the superhero trope turned on its head, superheroes as horrible branded corporate sell-outs, evil, and deranged people. Rooting for the team of misfit underdogs trying to take the "supes" down and kill them is incredibly satisfying. A fun romp.I watched Upload, also on Amazon Prime, just after, it's a fantastic new show. It feels disturbingly close to home and what could be a very near future to laugh out loud, though it is quite sweet, and I wanted to know about the world and the characters from the first episode. The fact that the guy has The Office, and Parks & Recreation on his resume is definitely attractive too. It's the story of a guy who gets uploaded to a digital afterlife, managed by your telecommunications / Internet Service Provider.I also watched Morgan Spurlock's feature documentary Supersize Me 2: Holy Chicken. 15 years after SuperSize Me, he goes back to check in on the world of fast food, though from a more comprehensive perspective than his personal diet, he goes through the whole cycle from raising chickens, to designing a new concept fast food, inquiring into whether fast food has changed, and opening his own chicken sandwich fast food restaurant. Definitely recommended.Finally, I watched the biopic of Rudy Ray Moore aka Dolemite on Netflix, with a bunch of fantastic actors, Eddie Murphy in the title role, Craig Robinson, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Titus Burgess (you may have seen in Kimmy Schmidt), Keegan Michael-Key, and Wesley Snipes. I didn't know anything about this 1970s Blaxploitation comedian legend, it was a lot of fun and interesting, definitely worth watching.I think that's about it for the weekly news roundup on my side of things. Have you seen anything good this week? Hit that reply button and tell me all about it!Cheers,WillemPS: If you hear of any work going for a playful strategy consultant, please bear me in mind and give me a shout. If you'd like to participate in one of my prototype workshops, please keep in touch too.

Rudy Ray Moore, the original Dolemite, doing kung fu! 

 Weekly Combo Typically a mix of playful and strategy flavours. 

This update tells us the reviews keep coming, though at least it seems it's just getting the game more interest from people who want to know about the game itself and play, rather than focus on some sexual orientation preference detail, that given the high critical appraise seems to have little to do with the quality of the game itself And I personally think it's great if the game includes a wider diversity of people, gender identities, and sexual orientations - and is quite simply a great game. I suppose I'll see if I play it, but I could already get busy with the first one. A friend of mine is playing that one and thoroughly enjoying it so I might just start there.