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Why Everyone's A Video Essayist Now
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
Konrad Hinsen's blog
A much cited essay by Bret Victor, "Explorable Explanations", argues for supporting and encouraging active reading in communicating ideas. Explanatory text should thus be complemented by interactive visualizations and computational demonstrations, allowing the reader to actively engage with the ideas. If you haven't read Victor's essay yet, please do so now, and then come back here. It's not very long. What I am going to discuss is a variation on Victor's proposal, and I won't repeat his well-presented arguments.
Cognitive Debt and ChatGPT
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
Visualize Value — Ideas, made visible
An ongoing practice of turning ideas into images. Visual ideas about work, markets, technology, culture, and human behavior by Jack Butcher.
Thinking in Triplicate — Mule Design
To align design and business, visualize the shared narratives
DeepSeek
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
Sound & Vision
Explore the future of type with the Re:Vision 2025 typographic playground—an interactive showcase of emerging type trends. Dive in and shape the next wave of visual language.
Weird Studies
Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
on ui as a metaphor
a personal manifesto and declaration - also known as I am threading a connection through all the notes I've sent myself over the last six months
Maggie Appleton
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
Artist app diary (1): the general idea - hilke thinks
How could an artist focused app on atproto look like? In the first episode of this 'artist app diary' I sketch some general ideas that I have in mind.
sense-making affordance design
Proposing Botwatch - 7hird Thoughts
Bycelium
Saving this one for when I need a slide about just how hard it is to make sense of reality in 2026
steamtags — rate how well each tag actually fits
It's working - Tynan's Leaflets
AI Tools for Trust: Community Notes, Rhetoric Detection & More