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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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …