Book cover of Big Ideas, Little Pictures: Explaining the world one sketch at a time

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In Big Ideas, Little Pictures, Jono Hey explains complex concepts through a combination of simple sketches and straightforward, easy-to-understand text. It's a fun, engaging approach to grasping challenging information, that's perhaps most clearly stated by one of his readers:

"I love seeing difficult concepts displayed in an understandable way. Democratizing…


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1 author picked Big Ideas, Little Pictures as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Even though I regularly follow the author's Sketchplanations weekly sketches, I found this collection of such sketches really interesting, fun and educational. The book allows the reader to dip into any section and find something of interest explained with an illuminating picture. The topics are very wide-ranging including such ideas as Tsundoku (with an unauthorized sketch of his parents' bedroom), the Swiss Cheese Model of safety failures, and the IKEA effect.
Full disclosure: I am Jono's father so am likely biased ,,,

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