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Justin Boreta Sketchnote from Tools of Titans

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Justin Boreta is known as a founding member of the electronic group Glitch Mob. He has no formal knowledge of traditional instruments so is an outlier when it comes to success. I like this as it’s a demonstration of an obscure way to get to the same destination. He is a well-spoken and thoughtful speaker and I would encourage a listen of the podcast in its entirety. Tim’s DiSSS in Action The interview is an example of Tim’s learning process in action due to his curiosity around audio equipment and production. DiSSS stands for deconstruction, selection, sequencing and stakes. The …

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Luis von Ahn Sketchnote From Tools of Titans

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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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Ed Catmull Sketchnote from Tools of Titans

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Ed cofounded Pixar along with Steve Jobs. He is trained in computer science and is the president of the Walt Disney animation studio. He mentioned that he can’t read poetry. So instead, he listens to it. Ed has received 5 Academy awards and has contributed to many advances in computer graphics. He is also the author of Creativity Inc. My strategies to recall Ed’s wisdom is as follows: Start with Ed as that starts for Education. Ed loved listening to lectures from the Teaching Company. From here, I link learning to reading. Like Ed, I find it difficult to harvest …

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