Just finished a packed day of great talks, panels and meeting a ton of interesting and intelligent people here at SXSW Interactive 2011.
When a couple of people saw my notebook from last years SXSW, they told me that I should’ve posted it online. I hadn’t really thought of it at the time, but thought I’d give it a go this year. So here are my notes from Day 1.
Today I attended:
- Fireside Chat: Tim O’Reilly Interviewed by Jason Calacanis
- The New Frontier of Social Gaming
- Shine Light on Others to Build Your Build
Patrick – amazing notes. I love the flow of the illustrations, and the way they communicate the core concepts. Hope all is well.
Thanks, Bob. You touched on my main reason for taking notes this way. I’m glad that came through.
Wow, amazing graphical representation! Thank you for sharing!
Patrick, I said this before but these notes are great. If I could draw I’d do this for sure. Do you ever listen to the pragmatic podcast? There’s an episode on “wetwear” that talks about how R modes and L modes of the brain and how different activities simulate different parts (http://www.pragprog.com/podcasts/show/13) . This is taking that to a new level!
Ryan – glad you like them! I’ve never listened to the Pragmatic Podcast before. Just read the description of the show you’re talking about, and going to listen to now. I started taking notes like this about seven years ago because I found that I was able to “understand” what was being said in a speech, panel, talk, whatever.. on a different level from the normal mechanical way that I used to take notes. Before, I would just frantically try to write down what somebody said, and it wouldn’t really make sense down the road (if I even looked at the notes later). This way I was able to visualize what I was hearing from the speaker and tie things together conceptually.
I think I’m rambling now though.. it’s probably worth it’s own post. Thanks again for the link.