I’ve got a stack of filled Moleskine notebooks with zero labeling on them. I can’t tell what’s inside any one of them without flipping through, so in this series I’m …
I Sketched a TED Talk (and It Got 1.4 Million Views)
In the video above I walk through exactly how I created a sketched summary of Katherine Hecht’s TEDx talk, How to Raise Kids Who Can Handle Hard Things. I turned …
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport – A Visual Summary
In his book Slow Productivity, Cal Newport shares with us the lost art of accomplishment without burnout. Here I’d like to sketch out some of the highlights. Knowledge Work and …
How do we tell the story of America? (Visual Explainer)
How do we tell the story of America? That’s the question Yoni Applebaum explored in an article in The Atlantic in July of 2026, as our country celebrated its 250th …
Leverage the Energy of the First Read
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 …