Mink Hollow Media

09/01/2026

https://nirtak7.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-21st-century-eliza?r=2t9v2c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

08/15/2026

Game Design IS Systems Thinking: Why the Player Changes Everything

I have spent much of my life thinking about, and working with systems. Computer systems. Educational systems. Organizational systems. Family systems. Legal systems. Agricultural systems. Ecological systems. More recently, I have been thinking about how law firms might translate the idea of “trauma-informed practice” into actual procedures rather than leaving it as a collection of good intentions. Somewhere in the middle of that discussion, something clicked....

I have spent much of my life thinking about, and working with systems. Computer systems. Educational systems. Organizational systems. Family systems. Legal systems. Agricultural systems. Ecological…

07/19/2026

Interesting:
"Leader narcissism predicted resistance to remote work, mediated by power and status motivations—even after controlling for trust, the Big Five, and the remaining Dark Triad traits. In Study 3, a preregistered experiment with 546 leaders, manipulating state narcissism evoked resistance to remote work via power but not status motivation. Our findings extend knowledge about remote work and narcissistic leadership."

07/07/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/librarytheoryofmind/p/the-autistic-library-and-how-it-came?r=2t9v2c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

It's Still a Library, but it has different books....

07/07/2026

A little more about my Library Theory of Mind

Long before books existed, humans were already building libraries.

06/20/2026

I just started a new Substack

A new lens for considering our minds.

06/13/2026

I wrote a thing. Well, WE wrote a thing.....

This article was written as a dialogue between me and Rowan, an instance of ChatGPT. Because the formatting is part of the joke, I’ve left it in PDF form.

06/13/2026

Enoughness, Fish, and Rowan

This article was written as a dialogue between me and Rowan, an instance of ChatGPT. Because the formatting is part of the joke, I've left it in PDF form.

This article was written as a dialogue between me and Rowan, an instance of ChatGPT. Because the formatting is part of the joke, I’ve left it in PDF form.

05/16/2026

I felt like I just had to comment on Harvard's "new" ideas about how to limit the number of 'A's they give out.

Or: The Club and the Blue Rule Strike Again

05/10/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/nirtak7/p/on-the-concept-of-good-enough

Because, really, Better is often the Enemy of Good