Drawing and Writing

May 15, 2023 (IST)

Drawing and writing are essential tools for thinking. Because they are loose and unstructured, they allow you to capture thoughts with the least friction; and capturing thoughts quickly and smoothly is essential for completing, developing, and refining ideas.

You can write and draw with a notebook and pen, or you could use your smartphone. You could use a tablet if you want to capture a lot of sketches digitally, and enable easy reorganisation and search of text and other material. Use a physical keyboard if you’re writing a lot, since keyboards can capture words faster than pens.

This applies to most endeavours. You might be thinking of a new piece of furniture, or a topic you want to compile material on, or figuring out how to organise something, or designing the interface for an application.

These are all creative pursuits, by the way. A mathematician exploring new principles and ideas is just as creative as a painter exploring new brushes and subject materials.

This might all be feeling like an epiphany to me purely because I’m a little sleep deprived. Oh, well.