{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"EP 351: Thinking Differently With Writer Kris Windley","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3179,"description":"\n\n\n\n\nIn This Episode:\n\n\n\n* Why writer Kris Windley decided to learn how to illustrate her articles* How doodling has helped her work with her ADHD* How she finds the idea or image she wants to illustrate for each piece* The metaphor she uses to think about skill-building\n\n\n\n\n\nI’ve become a bit obsessed with the concept of “sensemaking.”\n\n\n\nReally, I’ve been obsessed with it my whole life, I just didn’t have a name for it.\n\n\n\nSensemaking is the process of taking sensory information and situational knowledge and creating a framework for meaning and decision-making.\n\n\n\nOkay, I know, that sounds kind of heady. But really, we do it all the time.\n\n\n\nImagine you venture into the kitchen after a long day in your home office. The kitchen is torn apart. You see dishes stacked on the counter, cupboard doors open, and pantry items covering the table. You smell a slightly chemical citrus scent in the air. Your spouse isn’t there to ask what the heck is going on.\n\n\n\nQuickly, you deduce that they got the idea to deep clean the kitchen and had to step away for a bit. The job is almost finished but there’s still a ways to go and you’re hungry for dinner. You take the initiative to order pizza.\n\n\n\nThat’s sensemaking.\n\n\n\nYou went from “what the heck is going on here?” To “dinner is on its way” in less than 60 seconds.\n\n\n\nAnyhow, I’ve always got my eye out for a new way to make sense of the world. A framework, a script, a visualization, a map, a diagram… I love these tools. And I make good use of them in my own head.\n\n\n\nBut my sensemaking tools don’t always make it out of my head.\n\n\n\nIn the last year or so, I’ve really started to recognize that I have a unique strength for explaining how I make sense of things and that my frameworks are helpful for others, too.\n\n\n\nScore another for neurodivergence!\n\n\n\nThat said, it’s taken some practice find my public sensemaking rhythm. The way I write and speak has evolved quite a bit in a short time—at least from my perspective.\n\n\n\nBut the other...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AmfGeDL96-fhMaeOcqmX7TK_eWrvTLco6OJj2QpZtZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGUx/OWY5ZDg1M2E5MmU3/ZjEwOWVmNDM3MWVh/ZjZlOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}