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Several of the early (classic) Infocom games were meant for younger players - Seastalker, Wishbringer, and Moonmist if I recall correctly. I played these, and also Zork, Enchanter, and so forth, around that age, with my father doing most of the typing, and loved them. As I got older we moved into more (read: extremely) challenging titles like Witness and Deadline. Of possible interest: https://geekdad.com/2013/05/rediscovering-infocom-games-with-my-kids/

My kids are very young, but they love the board game "robot turtles"(http://www.robotturtles.com/) . I have found that there is a "minecraft hour of code" that I am anxious for them to try. (almost like a modern LOGO) http://geekdad.com/2015/12/minecraft-hour-of-code/

The article has another link to this http://geekdad.com/2015/01/danish-archer/ with the great quote: “He uses forgotten historical methods…” No, they were not forgotten. They just weren’t European.

You could do a lot worse than read about the concept of a Zettelkasten or Commonplace book. Here's my notes on the two. I am currently using the app Bear to take notes on everything and anything, tagging as I go, and trying my best to link notes to other meaningful notes. Less formal than a Zettelkasten but more digital than your average commonplace book. 1. Commonplace Book This is a book of thoughts, findings and general collections of information captured throughout your life and brought together into one place. [How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book” | Thought Catalog](https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2013/08/how-and-why-to-keep-a-… [Commonplace Books Part 3: Choosing a System - GeekDad](https://geekdad.com/2020/03/commonplace-books-part-3-choosing-a-system… 2. Zettelkasten A different concept, but also with relevance to storing information for a lifetime. From my brief readings, there’s more emphasis placed on two stages of note. The first is a quick jot - an addition. The second is a more thought out, self-contained existence of the note. There’s also focus placed here on _linking_ notes together. A good example of someone’s Zettelkasten is [[Andy Matuschak’s Note Collection]]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes?stackedNotes=zUw5PuD… [Zettelkasten - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten) [Bear App: A Solid Zettelkasten Solution for iOS Users — Mental…

The week I launched http://kidsdungeonadventure.com I got a review on Wired's GeekDad blog. That link drove nearly all my sales for months https://geekdad.com/2011/03/an-rpg-for-pre-schoolers-get-them-started-…

> Perhaps some of the claims are a little hyperbolic and self congratulatory, but you can't say "all this guy is good at is marketing". No, some if not many of the claims are flat out wrong. If he had only marketed himself as a fast shooter, then there wouldn't be nearly so much discussion happening about this. But instead he asserted himself as some sort of expert on historic archery technique and that is what is being challenged. protomyth points out this link in another post which makes a more directed point-by-point argument: http://geekdad.com/2015/01/danish-archer/

myth debunked: http://geekdad.com/2015/01/danish-archer/

It's a rare thing, but it is a thing: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arrested-for-lett… https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12031790/M… https://geekdad.com/2015/01/kids-play-arrested/ https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-son-park/in… https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parents-investig… I didn't even have to dig to find these, they're from the first page of results of a single Google search. Counterpointing myself though, in the third link you can see reference to active pushback against this whole thing: http://www.freerangekids.com/

I think the bigger issue is removing the context and cropping the complete work here, which quite likely is already a grave deviation from Minards intent (note the Northing of the Hannibal map to align with Napoleon's). It’s originally a 2 panel/figure page evoking a comparison between Hannibal's campaign over the Alps with vs. Napoleon's French Army in Russia 1812-1813 Sarah Rendgen just recently got a book published on the topic: The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard Here is the whole print in question: https://i2.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/PAP_M… from https://geekdad.com/2019/01/the-minard-system-charles-joseph-minards-i… [Book] https://www.papress.com/html/product.details.dna?isbn=9781616896331 Landsteiner makes notes on this, with a section in a previous article too: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2018/observing-minard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17808302