86: Maggie Appleton on the Power of Mental Models

We learn from Maggie Appleton about mental models, conceptual metaphor theory, culture, creative thinking, drawing a box, and how it all comes together in her incredible Egghead course artwork.

• Maggie Appleton — Twitter, Website, Dribbble
• chantastic — Twitter, Website, GitHub

• egghead
• Build an App with React Suspense — my suspense course on egghead
• iconfactory
• justjavascript.com
• State Monad in JavaScript on egghead
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracting World by Cal Newport — on Myelination
• Conceptual Metaphor Theory on Wikipedia
  • George Lakoff on Wikipedia
• Cultural anthropology on Wikipedia
• Sketching and Logo Creation (with Maggie Appleton) — Learn With Jason
• Language Tools
  • OneLook
  • The Phrase Thesaurus
  • Online Etymology Dictionary
• “Yes, and…” thinking on Wikipedia
• Lateral thinking on Wikipedia
  • Po (provocative operation)
  • Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step by Edward De Bono
• Draw A Box
• Higher-order component on reactpatterns.com
• Higher-order function on eloquentjavascript.net
• Tools
  • Procreate for iPad
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Keyboard Maestro
• illustrated.dev
• Joel Hooks
• Meat Planet — The Illustrated Notes
• Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift on [Maintainers Anonymous] with Henry Zhu

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