About this podcast
Big Ideas explored through Little Pictures. We offer up great conversations about ideas based on simple and insightful sketches in the Sketchplanations online collection, with the aim of giving listeners something fun and interesting to have their own conversations about.
This is an explainer podcast for the curious-minded. Topics covered include science, behavioural economics, wellbeing, nature, psychology frameworks, business models, cognitive biases, and even domestic life-hacks.
It's certainly not a self-help podcast, but you might take something away that helps you notice or even enjoy the world around you a little more.
Sketchplanations illustrator and author Jono Hey joins lifelong friends Tom Pellereau (2011 Apprentice Winner) and Rob Bell (Engineer & Broadcaster) to share ideas and stories catalysed by each week's sketch. The 3 of us have been friends for over 20 years and have always enjoyed delving into all sorts of conversation topics - usually with some silliness along the way.
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Episodes
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- The Diderot Effect · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 17Are you a slave to your possessions? Do your possessions form part of your identity? How easy is it to fall into a trap where one new purchase begets another, and another, and…
- Why Only 2 Countries Are Double-Landlocked · 31 min · Season 5 Episode 16In a double-landlocked country you must cross at least two national borders to reach a coastline connected to the world’s oceans. In this episode we talk about the nuances of…
- How To Become An Overnight Success. · 35 min · Season 5 Episode 15This discussion centres on “overnight success” as an illusion; prompted by Jono’s sketch of Twitter Cofounder, Biz Stone’s quote: “Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying…
- Play Until Something Gets Broken · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 14In this fun and nostalgic conversation, we discuss Jono's observation that with indoor games especially, as the momentum builds, you keep playing until something gets broken!…
- Submarine Lessons for Business Leadership · 52 min · Season 5 Episode 13US Navy submarine captain and author David Marquet discusses leadership lessons from turning the USS Santa Fe from worst to best, focusing on “pushing authority to information”…
- Hitting the Target: Accuracy vs. Precision · 30 min · Season 5 Episode 12Using Jono’s sketch of four archery targets, we discuss why and how accuracy and precision differ. Using many different examples, we frame the distinction as “accuracy being true…
- Do you Know Your Dashes? · 33 min · Season 5 Episode 11If you like the finer details of grammar and punctuation, then you're gonna love this episode. We geek out on the subtle, but incredibly important and occasionally crucial…
- Digging Through the Planet: The Geography of Antipodes · 17 min · Season 5 Episode 10Have you ever wondered what's happening on the exact opposite side of the world to you? Wherever you are on our planet, there's a good chance you'd need a snorkel. In this…
- The closer you look, the longer it gets: The Coastline Paradox · 26 min · Season 5 Episode 9When you want to measure something you take your ruler or tape measure and read off the length right? But when it comes to measuring the length of a coastline, things get a bit…
- More Than Just Rings: Unity, History, and Ambition. · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 8Have you ever wondered what the colours on the Olympic flag represent? The Olympic logo is a globally recognised brand and remarkably, it was designed over 100 years ago by the…
- Tsundoku: Do you buy books faster than you can read them? 📚🤔 · 21 min · Season 5 Episode 7How big is that pile of books next to your bed? Tsundoku is a Japanese word for buying books and letting them pile up unread. It’s a familiar habit to book lovers everywhere —…
- Family Tree Explainer · 29 min · Season 5 Episode 6Do you know who your second cousins are or if you even have any? And what does "once removed" mean anyway? Tune in to this episode as we unravel the mysteries of family…
- Continuous Partial Attention · 39 min · Season 5 Episode 5Coined in the 1990s by Linda Stone, Continuous Partial Attention describes the state of being constantly connected; trying to do multiple things at once, which often leads to an…
- Microlives & The Art of Uncertainty with Sir David Spiegelhalter · 54 min · Season 5 Episode 4What's your life expectancy trade-off for enjoying a crispy bacon sandwich? 🥓 Sir David Spiegelhalter is a celebrated Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge…
- The Pomodoro Technique · 37 min · Season 5 Episode 3This genius time management hack was conceived by Francesco Cirillo. The technique involves working for 25 minutes followed by a mandatory 5-minute break, repeating this cycle…
- Canal Locks with David Macauley · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 2In this episode, Jono meets one of his heroes, as we engage in a conversation with acclaimed author, illustrator and explainer, David Macaulay. We talk about David's journey…
- Ordering Adjectives with Author Mark Forsyth · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 1When describing something with numerous adjectives (eg. the big brown dog, the heavy square steel door) there's a natural order we all instinctively follow as english speakers. I…
- Jevon's Paradox · 31 min · Season 4 Episode 12This time we discuss Jevons' Paradox, the counterintuitive concept that improvements in fuel efficiency can lead to increased overall fuel use. We explore the origin of this…
- Words of Wonder: Apricity - with Grant Snider · 42 min · Season 4 Episode 11Do you like using interesting words in your conversations? We do. And there's one that's a tip top favourite... You're guaranteed* to learn loads of interesting words from this…
- How to Instantly Feel Better · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 10As we return from our summer break we discuss various ways to instantly feel better - timely perhaps for the Big Back to Work / School / Normality of September. We explore eight…
