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Sketchplanations makes complex ideas simple with clear, insightful sketches. Explore topics from science, creativity, psychology, and beyond explained in pictures.

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The law of diminishing brownies

You will have observed this most times there is shared food you can cut. I observed it with trays of brownies that we used to make. Slices start big and get progressively smaller. No one wants to eat the last slice. A previous boss had a simple solution to this with a maxim he had: You think of one, you get two. A bit excessive, and I don’t advocate it, but it really did work.…
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Bad internet is worse than no internet

You will recognise this when you have spent 40 minutes off and on trying to do something online when you could have been spending your time happily and productively doing something else.…
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Remember days in a month

The old knuckle trick. I still find it handy when “30 days has November…” leaves me with some uncertainty.…
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What is The Generalised Peter Principle explained: the example of an overloaded car shows that anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging situations until it fails

The Generalised Peter Principle

The Generalised Peter Principle states that "Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging situations until it fails. The Generalised Peter Principle is a specific case of the Peter Principle, which is the same idea but applied to people 😱. I observed the Generalised Peter Principle when packing a minivan in Cambodia. Be kind to your things.…
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