Shape Up - Singer

Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
by Ryan Singer

Q. Distinctive visual approach used for text in fat-marker drawings?
A. Squiggles, not straight lines.

Q. Advantage of using squiggles over straight lines for text in fat-marker drawings?
A. Distinguishes text from lines used for strokes.

Thoughts on mnemonic medium adaptation

• No robots.txt or forbidding copyright notices…
• I’ve already read this book, and I think its concepts really do need some support to internalize and remember. I have trouble remembering almost any of the fine details a year later.
• It’s a fairly popular book in the tech community, so it’s something that would probably “play” well with my audience.
• I don’t think the author would object; he’d probably find it interesting.
• It’s a small enough book that I feel confident about writing prompts for the whole thing myself.
• +/-: I think much of the benefit of adding prompts to a book like this would lie in extending the medium’s types—e.g. to experiment with Timeful text ideas, Reflection prompts can record and accumulate responses over time, etc. The upside of working with this text is that it could be a testing ground for that kind of thing. The downside is that it might feel kind of hollow to adapt with a heavy focus on memory.