#141: Jono Hey – Build a Creative Practice That Sticks: Mastering Visual Thinking, 900+ Sketches, Deep Simplicity and Collaborating with Bill Gates

Jono Hey, author of Big Ideas Little Pictures and creator of Sketchplanations, shares insights from over a decade of explaining the world through sketches.
We discuss:
• The power of visual thinking
• Building a new identity when changing careers
• Knowing when a piece is done and ready for publishing
• Tips to get started with sketching
• & lessons from long-term creative projects, including illustrating for Bill Gates.
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ABOUT JONO HEY
Jono Hey is the author and illustrator of Big Ideas Little Pictures, a collection of the best of Sketchplanations—his decade-long project dedicated to explaining complex ideas through simple sketches. With a background spanning academia, business, design, product development, and engineering, Jono has helped build two successful companies and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His work has been featured in Bill Gates’s book How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, and he co-hosts Sketchplanations – the Podcast, where he and two friends dive deeper into the ideas behind his sketches. Find his latest work atsketchplanations.com.
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RESOURCES
• 📑Interview Transcript (docs.google.com/document/d/1gkKv3WOJmlSw6Ppc6z…)
• Sketchplanations.com (sketchplanations.com)
• A Sketch a Day journal (tinyurl.com/3z62c233)
• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule by Paul Graham (paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html)
• Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam (danroam.com/my-books)
• Big Ideas Little Pictures by Jono Hey (sketchplanations.com/big-ideas-little-pictures)
• Blurb (Book Printing) (blurb.co.uk)
• Jono’s Patreon (patreon.com/sketchplanations)
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