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Dan Roam: The Back of the Napkin

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m0nkeybl1tz
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Posted: 03.06.09, 06:35 PM
It's a very interesting concept, and I've started doing it a bit in my daily life, but I wish he would've made a more convincing argument for why it works...
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whatnj
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Posted: 03.19.09, 01:29 PM
Great message and great speech. It would have been lot better if the person who shot the video captured the diagrams as well when Dan was pointing and talking about the diagram. It is very annoying when the camera is just focused on Dan when he is trying to talk about something on the screen or whiteboard.
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Invictus_88
Posts: 75
Posted: 03.20.09, 05:10 AM
It could have been interesting to have had a short section considering the advantage of visual thinking in the light of the higher-than-average incidence of dyslexic individuals who are very successful - dyslexia very often being typified by greater than average reliance on visual thinking.
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Francis J.L. Osborn.

Philosophy Undergraduate, St David's College Lampeter.
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Invictus_88
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Posted: 03.20.09, 06:05 AM
01:03:00
Internal visualisation of problems is something I've been doing for as long as I can remember, it is how I think as a default. Having watched this video all the way through, I think he overstates he advantage of this sort of thinking.

A lot of people aren't this visual, and it can make it difficult to express oneself in specific media. Essays, for example, are exceptionally difficult to write when one thinks this way.
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Francis J.L. Osborn.

Philosophy Undergraduate, St David's College Lampeter.
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Jim Batterson
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Posted: 04.11.09, 06:21 PM
I have drawn a picture to tell you what I think of this presentation and it is right here on my left. Okay, and here's another picture. Now you understand the point I'm trying to make. No need to thank me, Mr. Cameraman.
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vladsinger
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Posted: 04.13.09, 08:23 PM
Well, talk about deeply ironic. Here he's attempting to convey the importance of visual representation, and we are unable to see the visuals he presents.
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jorge03
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Posted: 05.01.09, 12:26 PM
The cameraman either dozed off, went away or did not understand the name of the lecture, he does not show the picture and drawings Dan makes, takes about 80% of the objective away.
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countyroad
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Posted: 05.06.09, 05:54 AM
So frustrating to watch a lecture about visual reasoning and no one can see what Mr. Roam is drawing on his whiteboard.
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aserra
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Posted: 09.28.09, 07:19 AM
unfortunately without seeing the pictures mentioned during the speech I did not understand much, which perhaps confirms the theories exposed but that does not helps at all
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