Created by Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale at Raw Signal Group — https://rawsignal.ca. But nothing cool happens without a bunch of people contributing.
Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies cards were definitely a thing we thought about while poking at this idea.
Sarah Stein Lubrano's writing about Social Atrophy helped drive our sense that we needed baby-steps versions of socializing at work.
Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering was utterly formative to our overall approach to bringing people together at work.