Big Ideas, Little Pictures: Explaining the world one sketch at a time

This fun, compelling book provides easily understood insights into complex issues through a combination of clear sketches and charts and simple, easy-to-understand text. In Big Ideas, Little Pictures, Jono Hey explains complex concepts through a combination of simple sketches and straightforward, easy-to-understand text. It’s a fun, engaging approach to grasping challenging information, that’s perhaps most clearly stated by one of his readers: “I love seeing difficult concepts displayed in an understandable way. Democratizing knowledge. There are a lot of podcasts that I listen to: Stuff You Should Know or TED Talks but they each take up 30 minutes. With Sketchplanations – BOOM – in one picture I can get the gist of an idea and then your supporting text clarifies it even further.” In addition to making readers smarter and better informed in less time, Big Ideas, Little Pictures is also a light-hearted, witty gift – the perfect display piece for readers who want a something that can be picked up and flipped through at any point, with the assurance that the reader is going to come across something of interest, with topics ranging from the difference between an Americano and a Long Black coffee to Survivorship Bias, the Abilene Paradox and so much more. Jono Hey (Jonathan Hey) is the founder and creative engine behind Sketchplanations, a popular website with a broad social media following on which Hey aims to explain everything he knows about the universe and our place in it with a new sketch each week. When he’s not unlocking the secrets of our existence, he’s the Chief Product Officer for Zen Educate. He lives in London, England. Perfect for children as well as adults, Big Ideas, Little Pictures opens up a word of fascinating facts at a glance.