If you’re concerned about the role of technology in your kid’s life, Jonathan Haidt offers three strategies in his 2026 TED talk. Here’s a visual summary and a quick recap. …
The Network Self Diagram: Sketching Out Your Multiple Identities
It can be easy to reduce your sense of yourself to a single identity: the one that matters most to you, or the one that’s front and center right now. …
Who’s Really Abusing the Welfare System? (Visual Explainer)
When you hear the term welfare abuse, who comes to mind? You might think of someone trying to game the system: seeking out benefits they don’t need, being lazy, and …
The Gantt Chart: Coordinating Complex Projects
Do you manage a project that involves multiple interdependent tasks, some of which overlap and need to progress at the same time? That’s precisely why the Gantt chart was developed. …
I Built a Quiz Game From My Own Visual Notes
What do you do with your visual notes after you take them? That’s a question that comes up often inside of Verbal to Visual. You put real effort into a …
How I’m Planning a 3-Month Sabbatical
I’ve set a big goal for myself for 2027: a summer sabbatical. I’d like to step away from work for about three months while my twin boys are out of …
Creating a Visual Book Summary: Chapter-by-Chapter Sketchnotes of Chatter
In this post, I want to bring you along with me as I get started on a new visual book summary. I’m currently reading Chatter by Ethan Kross, which is …
The Origins of Coach Beard (Behind the Sketchnote)
In this video I returned to a format I hadn’t reached for in a while: a small Moleskine notebook and a one-and-done approach to sketchnoting. No polished single-page summaries here. …
I Wish I Still Did This
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 …