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Sketchplanations - The Podcast Bell Boy Productions
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Big Ideas explored through Little Pictures.
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.
Explaining the world, one sketch at a time.
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.
A podcast to accompany the popular series of simple explanations of stuff through a weekly sketch at sketchplanations.com.
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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Fun at the Beach
We think beaches are great!
What about you?
In this episode:
We discuss how beaches are prime spots for enjoyment for all ages and at any time of year.We talk about how they can be places for excitement and adrenaline; places to encourage creativity; places for quiet contemplation; and places that bring perspective to life.Tommy goads Jono into a debate about what's better: Mountains or Beaches.We share our best beach-find storiesand as ever, we bring in a few of Jono's other related sketches:+ Sea Jellies and Sea Stars
+ Types of surf breaks (waves)
+ The Anatomy of a wave
+ The Strand Line
And here's the photo of "the bomb" found on the beach up near Middlesbrough.
We'd love to hear from you about your best finds or your most memorable moments at the beach.
Email us: hello@sketchplanations.com
All music on this podcast series provided by the very talented Franc Cinelli.
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The Peter Principle
This week, we ask ourselves if we've reached our professional peaks and if we now fall foul to the Peter Principle, having tipped into our levels of incompetency.
Amongst many other clever things, Jono applies the principle to Football Management.
Tommy gives his insight to how relevant it is managing at the very top of a business.
And I tell how my capacity to teach stuff is severely limited by exactly the kind of incompetence the Peter Principle is based on.
Where do you feel you or maybe more interestingly, where do those around you sit within the Peter Principle?
Here are some useful links if you want to find out more about some of the bits we discussed:
The Peter Principle was first proposed by Canadian educator, Laurence J. Peter . In one of his books, he also said that "noblest of all dogs is the hot dog; it feeds the hand that bites it."Creator of The Paula Principle is Tom SchullerThe Dilbert PrincipleThe Generalised Peter Principle sketch#1 Rule of Indoor GamesThe BBC Peter Principle sitcom with Jim Broadbent on YouTube
Please consider giving us a review or subscribing to our podcast on your podcast player. It really helps.
Please also consider putting in a pre-order for Jono's Sketchplanations book: Big Ideas, Little Pictures. Out very soon.
We'd love to hear your stories of any experience with The Peter Principle.
Ping us an email to: hello@sketchplanations.com
All Music on this podcast series is provided by Franc Cinelli. Find many more tracks at franccinelli.com
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Botany (with James Wong) - Part 2
So much we didn't know about the wonderful world of plants.
In this compilation, double-header episode discussing some of Jono's sketches that cover fascinating elements of botany, we are joined by 2-time gold medal winner at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show, author of 6 best-selling books, and ambassador for Kew Gardens; celebrated botanist, James Wong.
Rather than edit out a tonne of insightful, educational discussion points from James, we decided to publish this episode in two parts. This is Part 2.
The sketches we discussed are:
Heat IslandsThe Browse LineThe Hungry GapPhoenix TreesNurse LogsHow to make your own Fresh Air
This last sketch was based on a TED talk by Kamal Meattle - and it's an interesting listen to hear how James dissects the theory behind it.
It was also a delight to discover that all 4 of us attended the University of Bath at the same time.
Please consider giving us a review or subscribing to our podcast on your podcast player. It really helps.
Please also consider putting in a pre-order for Jono's Sketchplanations book: Big Ideas, Little Pictures. Out very soon now.
Have a story or a thought about botany and your experiences with plants?
Ping us an email to: hello@sketchplanations.com
All Music on this podcast series is provided by Franc Cinelli. Find many more tracks at franccinelli.com
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Botany (with James Wong) - Part 1
So much we didn't know about the wonderful world of plants.
In this compilation, double-header episode discussing some of Jono's sketches that cover fascinating elements of botany, we are joined by 2-time gold medal winner at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show, author of 6 best-selling books, and ambassador for Kew Gardens; celebrated botanist, James Wong.
Rather than edit out a tonne of insightful, educational discussion points from James, we decided to publish this episode in two parts. This is Part 1.
The sketches we discussed are:
Heat IslandsThe Browse LineThe Hungry GapPhoenix TreesNurse LogsHow to make your own Fresh Air
This last sketch was based on a TED talk by Kamal Meattle - and it's an interesting listen to hear how James dissects the theory behind it.
It was also a delight to discover that all 4 of us attended the University of Bath at the same time.
Please consider giving us a review or subscribing to our podcast on your podcast player. It really helps.
Please also consider putting in a pre-order for Jono's Sketchplanations book: Big Ideas, Little Pictures. Out very soon now.
Have a story or a thought about botany and your experiences with plants?
Ping us an email to: hello@sketchplanations.com
All Music on this podcast series is provided by Franc Cinelli. Find many more tracks at franccinelli.com
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Should we stop using "Bi-weekly"?
The three of us are tired of being misunderstood when we've used the words "biweekly", "bimonthly" and "biannually".
It's just no fun.
And so we're starting the campaign to ditch biweekly and use fortnightly instead. See sketch here.
Try it out. You won't regret it.
Our discussion turns to the general ambiguity of language and how in many senses it's quite a good thing.
It allows for creative writing, comedy and ease of communication.
Lots of bits to link to this week from this week's episode - enjoy:
Ian Hollingshead book - Imagine my surprise... William Empson's book - The 7 types of AmbiguityTED talk by Lera Boroditsky & here's her Instagram account too.Sketch on the Oxford commaSketch on Context is KingSketch on CapitonymsSketch on homonyms, homographs, homophones, heteronyms
Please consider giving us a review or subscribing to our podcast on your podcast player. It really helps.
Please also consider putting in a pre-order for Jono's Sketchplanations book: Big Ideas, Little Pictures. Out very soon now.
We'd love to hear your stories of any confusion with the words biweekly, bimonthly or biannually.
Ping us an email to: hello@sketchplanations.com
All Music on this podcast series is provided by Franc Cinelli. Find many more tracks at franccinelli.com
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Sneaky Averages
Do you work with data and statistics?
Actually, it doesn't matter if you do or not, you're bound to have come across averages of some kind at some point.
And, as we discuss in this episode, the average can often hide key information about a data set.
We'd love to know your thoughts or experiences with Sneaky Averages.
email us: hello@sketchplanations.com
There's an old story about the statistician who drowned after seeing that the average depth was 3ft. Averages, or in this case the mean, necessarily hide some data, but very often they also hide what's really going on.
As Jono's psychology professor at UC Berkeley, Sheldon Zedeck, taught him; spend time with your data.
You can find the headline sketch here.
Other sketches referenced in this episode include:
SwimRunWealth inequality in the USThe BS Asymmetry Principle
Additionally, we mention the very entertaining website spurious correlations - where you'll find a whole load of amusing graphs.
We mentioned Edward Tufty's work: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
There's the ever-fascinating musings of Tim Harford in his podcast (More or Less) and his book (The Undercover Economist)
And there's our mate Jez Clements who holds the Guiness World marathon record for the fastest male dressed as a 3D TV Character.
Finally, I'm not the only one who struggles saying the word "statistics" repeatedly!!
Find many more sketches at Sketchplanations.com
All Music on this podcast series is provided by Franc Cinelli. Find many more tracks at franccinelli.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Customer Reviews
British dude chat.
This is a good podcast for people who like listening to some British dudes chatting about life, the universe & everything. Bonus: Each episode comes with a free sketch about the topic discussed.