Synthesis and summaries

Inspired by the NYT bestseller ‘One Life, 6 Words, What’s yours?’  I held a company meeting where we shared our six-word-stories about our company.  It was fun and reveiling. And also a recommended team building activity.

In fact, all of my work is about synthesing and visualizing complex information.  When I work live at a meeting or an event the result of one day meeting with a large group of participants is summarized and made visible  in a large report of 1,2 x 3m.  

As you’ve probably seen on my blog I also like to capture the key content of TED Talks in sketchnotes.  There are over 1000 talks to watch on TED.com. Watching all of these ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ would take several weeks, …

Probably inspired by the same book and with a  a budget of under $100, Sebastian Wernicke (TedX Zurich) took the amusing challenge to summarize and synthesize all the ideas. Have a look!