Doug Neill holding up a pink sticky note in his right hand and a fanned-out stack of white index cards in his left hand, presenting them toward the camera. He is wearing a dark blue button-up shirt in a home office setting with bookshelves visible in the soft-focus background.

The Building Blocks of Deep Thinking

When you’re learning something new or working through a tricky problem, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the complexity of the topic and the number of details that you have …

The Messy Middle of Visual Thinking

There’s a moment in every visual thinking project where the ideas are all sitting in front of you — on index cards, in underlined passages, scribbled in the margins — …

February 2026 Visual Thinking Events

Happy February! I wanted to let you know about the visual thinking events taking place ​inside Verbal to Visual​ this month. If you’re already a member, mark your calendar for …

2026 Visual Thinking Book Club

If you’ve ever finished a great book and then forgotten 95% of it two weeks later, then this post is for you. I’ve just announced the 2026 Visual Thinking Book …