Made To Stick Summary Sketchnote To Exponentially Better Your Storytelling

Ever told a story that had a lingering… … ending? You just kind of let it hang out there. Or maybe it was one of those monotone under-dramatic pieces that better suited to evening sleep routines. Well, Chip and Dan Heath’s Made to Stick summary sets out to counter this via their SUCCES principles. SUCCES is an acronym that stands for Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional and Stories. Remember this acronym and you’ll have success when writing or telling your next story. Let’s dive straight into the first principle. Keep Your Story Simple Stupid You’re probably familiar with the old …

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Luis von Ahn Sketchnote From Tools of Titans

What’s the most popular language app in the world? Duolingo. Luis is its co-founder and CEO at the time of the writing of Tools of Titans. He is a computer science professor who is from Guatemala. Amusingly, in one unit he taught, he created a fake website of a solution to a problem he asked his students to solve. What his students didn’t know was that he tracked their IP addresses thus revealing who took to Google to ‘cheat’. He is also the founding father of those annoying captchas on the Internet. The origin story is from Yahoo where some …

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