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 …
Scope Your Sketch
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 …
An Unlikely Pair: The Network Self and the Gantt Chart
We end each month inside the Collective with a planning session in which I walk participants through a set of activities that promote some reflection on the past month and some intention-setting …
Mastering Visual Metaphors
When you’re first learning how to sketch out ideas, it’s natural to start with the basics: learning how to draw simple icons that represent real objects in our physical world. …
Sticky Note-Taking
When you’re reading to learn, the note-taking options seem endless. Is highlighting or underlining enough? Should I jot down notes in the margins? What should I do at the end …
Visual Thinking Structures: Outside Inspiration
In a recent video I identified the two primary questions that we ask and answer as visual thinkers: In my experience, the second question is harder to answer than the …
Learning Styles vs Dual Coding
The education theory of learning styles suggests that we each have a preferred mode of learning (visual, auditory, reading/writing, or kinesthetic – VARK for short) and that we learn best …
Wendy MacNaughton on Drawing and Paying Attention
In her 2021 TED Talk, Wendy MacNaughton encourages us to slow down and look at the world more closely, using drawing as the activity to get us there. As a …