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Big Ideas explored through Little Pictures. We offer up great conversations about ideas based on simple and insightful sketches in the Sketchplanations online collection, with the aim of giving listeners something fun and interesting to have their own conversations about.


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.


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.


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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  • Submarine Lessons for Business Leadership
    Apr 7 2026

    US Navy submarine captain and author David Marquet discusses leadership lessons from turning the USS Santa Fe from worst to best, focusing on “pushing authority to information” rather than pushing information up a hierarchy. Marquet critiques industrial-age leadership language that seeks obedience and creates “bobblehead” agreement, arguing that real engagement comes from giving people decision-making authority,


    He also explains “distancing,” as a leadership and decision-making tool: viewing oneself from a third-person, from a different time, and/or from a different place to reduce ego and defensiveness over previous decisions.


    A thoroughly fascinating chat with a very talented and fun individual.



    External Links for items referenced in the conversation:

    • David’s 3 books can be found here: Turn the Ship Around (+ workbook), Leadership is Language, and Distancing
    • Here are two of many of David's talks to be found on YouTube: What is leadership? and Turn the Ship Around at the World Web Forum
    • Here's the YouTube video of David rating submarine movies for how realistic they portray life under the waves.
    • David talks about advice given to him by Simon Sinek
    • Some of Jono's other skecthes references in this podcast include: Solvitor Ambulando (it is solved by walking); 9 windows (problem solving tool); Anchors and Tugboats (self-talk)
    • David talks about ultra-runner extraordinaire Courtney Dauwalter


    Summary

    00:00 From Cold War Kid to Submariner

    03:02 Life Aboard a High-Performing Sub

    03:53 The Arbitrary Officer Divide

    04:40 Student Not "Expert"

    05:51 Words That Kill Curiosity

    08:44 What Leadership Was Taught

    12:37 Pushing Authority to Information

    16:03 Submarine Leave Approval Hack

    20:02 Authority in Everyday Workplaces

    21:59 Bias for Action and Excellence

    22:46 Distancing to Decide Better

    25:41 Put Them In Your Chair

    26:12 Distancing In Space & Time

    27:45 Inviting Feedback Culture

    28:52 Nine Windows Thinking Tool

    30:25 You Can Do It Self Talk

    32:28 Regret Proof Decisions

    38:04 Journaling Into A Book

    39:41 Be Your Own Coach

    45:50 Team Reviews Without Defensiveness

    47:19 Live Big Bold Lives

    48:14 Submarine Movies And Ambiguity

    50:55 Wrap Up


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    52 m
  • Hitting the Target: Accuracy vs. Precision
    Mar 24 2026

    Using Jono’s sketch of four archery targets, we discuss why and how accuracy and precision differ.

    Using many different examples, we frame the distinction as “accuracy being true to intention and precision being true to itself,” also phrased as doing the right thing versus doing it right.

    The sketch is inspired by Simon Winchester's book, Exactly, where precision and accuracy are connected to the industrial revolution via Henry Maudsley’s innovative screw-cutting lathe, micrometer, and the concept of interchangeable parts. The conversation broadens to explore examples in food (McDonald’s vs artisan meals), recipes, recruiting, IQ tests (validity vs reliability), indoctrinated beliefs, gut feelings, culture’s return to individual craftsmanship, AI’s variable answers, LED mask wavelength tolerances, and targeting weapons.


    External links

    Also referenced in this episode:

    • Jono's sketch that describes the difference between Reliability and Validity.
    • Jono's sketch inspired by Roger Martin's Knowledge Funnel.
    • Jono's sketch outlining The Beard Cycle.


    Episode Outline

    00:00 Accuracy vs Precision: the Four Target Sketch

    03:23 True to Intention

    04:11 Ball Through Window

    05:44 Precision Built World

    09:45 Food and Recipes

    13:27 Calibration and Scales

    14:47 Manufacturing Tolerances

    16:51 Hiring and Testing

    19:16 Beliefs and Education

    23:01 Culture and Craft

    26:09 Doctors Robots and AI

    29:03 Wrap Up and Credits


    All music on this podcast series is provided by the very talented Franc Cinelli and you can find more tracks at franccinelli.com

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    30 m
  • Do you Know Your Dashes?
    Mar 10 2026

    If you like the finer details of grammar and punctuation, then you're gonna love this episode.


    We geek out on the subtle, but incredibly important and occasionally crucial differences between three little horizontal lines: the hyphen - the En Dash – and the Em Dash —


    Jono explains hyphens for line breaks and compound terms, how usage can evolve into single words (e.g., wildlife, wellbeing), and why hyphen placement can change meaning (e.g., five-dollar bills). The en dash is described as linking ranges and relationships (pages, dates, times, scores, routes, debates, partnerships, negotiations), with notes on how to type it. The em dash is framed as a stronger-than-comma interruption for added thoughts, with style cautions and typing methods. They discuss underscore origins from typewriters, punctuation differences across countries, and how AI popularized em dashes as a telltale sign of machine-written text.


    Most importantly though, we discuss why this matters and that if used correctly, they can help avoid misunderstandings.


    Episode Summary

    00:00 Welcome to Sketchplanations

    00:40 What Are Dashes

    03:09 Hyphen Basics

    04:32 Hyphenated Words

    05:35 Language Evolves

    07:00 Hyphen Pitfalls

    07:31 Tom on Hyphens

    10:38 Meet the En Dash

    11:41 Typing En Dashes

    12:32 En Dash Use Cases

    14:47 Spacing and Style

    15:30 Introducing Em Dash

    15:33 Em Dash Basics

    16:15 Style Guide Rules

    18:08 Brackets vs Speech

    18:57 Where Names Come From

    20:32 Underscore Origins

    22:05 Reading Dashes Aloud

    24:39 Does It Matter

    26:04 Oxford Comma Stakes

    28:36 AI Em Dash Tell

    29:59 Typing Em Dashes

    30:32 Punctuation By Country

    31:41 Morse Code And Minus

    32:43 Final Sign Off


    External Link

    There's only one link this week:

    • Jono referenced the book Strunk and White : The Elements of Style


    All music on this podcast is provided by the very talented Franc Cinelli.

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    33 m
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