Notemaking and the Stability of your Identity

🤔 INTERESTING

📐 DESIGN

Behind-the-Scenes designing of “Run Your Own Race” 👇

Problem 1: Text and messaging feel like they can be more coherent.

Let’s use color to connect the labels “10 Years Ago” and “Today” more closely with the START sign.

Much better.

Problem 2: The ❌ and the ✅ are out of alignment making the image feel off balance.

Let’s exaggerate the distance between our hero and who they look up to more to motivate nudging the ❌ more to the left.

Final Image :

Not bad! It even makes more sense now because our hero should be at the absolute beginning Today. 🙌

(confession: you may notice it’s still not aligned perfectly…but it was late and I needed to publish! It’ll be better in a future iteration 😉)

🔮 ENCHANTING 

Believing the world is broken is the fastest path (and easiest excuse) to descend into nihilism.

It keeps us from doing anything about it because…well, what’s the point.

I wonder though, what would the world look like if we fixed the lens we saw it through?

🧠 ANALOGY

Power of Notemaking

I get asked a lot how I come up with ideas for visuals.

One method I use is "notemaking." It's pretty much notetaking on steroids.

Or another way to look at it: journaling on the ideas you consume.
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