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I’ve recently realized that the visual thinking programs that I run are about three things: 1. Building Skills We gather together for the purpose of building visual thinking skills, to …

To become a visual thinker requires three shifts. The first shift is from consumption to creation. This is the decision to not just passively take in new information, but actively create …

You know that feeling of anxiety that you get when you take on a project that’s outside your realm of expertise? You don’t know what tools, materials, or skills you …

I recently had a conversation in which someone mentioned how on a trip to the doctor, the doctor pulled out a notebook and sketched out the parathyroid in support of …

As visual thinkers, what we do is make sense of the world by making marks on the page. Those marks can take all sorts of different forms, from words, boxes, …

When taking visual notes on a book or a podcast, it’s hard to avoid the trap of trying to capture that information source comprehensively. We think we need to capture …

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” That’s what British statistician George Box said back in 1976. As a builder and user of models, his point was that we …

When you’re doing the work of making ideas visible, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the first marks you make need to be the final ones. …

Thanks to a recent share within our online learning hub (shoutout to Lai Chee!), I watched this explainer video about generative AI: In addition to enjoying the overview of that technology, I also …

Once you start weaving drawings and diagrams into your work, a dangerous trap sometimes opens up: the feeling that you have to sketch out everything. Every interesting idea from that podcast …