There’s a particular kind of energy that shows up when you read a good book for the first time. You’re underlining a sentence that names something you’ve felt but never …
Parenting for Comfort vs Confidence (Visual Explainer)
How do we raise kids who can handle hard things? That’s the question that Kathryn Hecht explored in a recent TED talk, starting with the story of Sammy, a kid …
One Notebook, Every Idea: My Daily Visual Thinking Practice
I recently filmed a lesson for the Make Models course where I flip through the pages of my daily driver: a large Leuchtturm1917 notebook that has become the center of …
The Mini Digital Detox
To disconnect from technology doesn’t require that you go on a week-long silent meditation retreat. You can engage in a digital detox at whatever scale fits your needs and circumstances. …
Forest Bathing (Explained Visually)
“Forest Bathing.” Have you heard of it? Before you roll your eyes, hear me out. We all know that spending time in nature is good for us. But you might …
The Purged: Recklessly Abandoning Civil Service Members
Civil service has got a bad rap lately. So much so that the President deemed it necessary to create the Department of Government Efficiency, which took on a campaign that …
Where Will the Money Go? (Overpaid CEO Tax)
If Los Angeles manages to pass the Overpaid CEO Tax, which I explained in my last video, where will the money go? That’s a question that many of you had, …
The Overpaid CEO Tax (Explained Visually)
You can also watch this video on TikTok and Instagram There’s an interesting showdown happening right now between the city of Los Angeles and mega corporations like Starbucks. It has …
How Mark Rober is Solving the Science Motivation Gap
In his new TED Talk, Mark Rober outlines the $60 million science experiment he is conducting. Here I’d like to share my visual notes of that talk. A Visceral Opening …
AI Adoption: Wait, why am I doing this?
In a recent episode of her podcast What Works, host Tara McMullin encourages us to ask this question much more often: Wait, why am I doing this? Especially when it …