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Sketchplanations - A weekly explanation in a sketch
You will have a much harder time dealing with a gnarly challenge if you have not distilled it down to a crux. No one solves a problem they cannot comprehend and hold in their mind.
Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
What's all this about, why does it matter to you? It's mostly just musing on an observation that seems to have held up since the first time it occurred to me in my youth. If you keep this truth in mind it can shape the way you describe things, learn things, and share that knowledge.
One of your fundamental challenges in life is to establish the appr
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Sketchplanations - Simplifying complex ideas in sketches
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Give yourself time to get clear on what the problem is before you jump into solving it.
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking
“Sketching is this effort to work through ambiguity and muddiness and come to crispness.”
Scott Berinato • Good Charts
Vagueness causes confusion, but clarity of thought and purpose is a huge advantage in business. Good leadership requires a never‐ending process of boiling things down to their essentials. Spell out what you mean! If priorities are not clearly understood at the top, how distorted will they be down the line?
Frank Slootman • Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
When you get lost, there are rising feelings of helplessness and anxiety. It is frustrating not knowing which way to go, with the temptation to grasp onto the first hint of a way.12 Those two rocks piled on one another—don’t they mark a path out of the forest? This, to some extent, is the same feeling one has when facing a gnarly strategic challeng
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The mind, if preoccupied with a problem or question long enough, will tend to come up with possibilities that might eventually lead to answers, but at this stage are still speculations, untested hypotheses, and early epiphanies. (Epiphanies often are characterized as “Aha! moments,” but that suggests the problem has been solved in a flash. More of
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