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Sadly, a good friend of mine suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. Luckily, it hasn't hampered his sense of humor. At his last visit to the clinic, he told me how excited he'd been when the doctor pulled out a chart that "would make it all clear".
No wonder our health care system is the envy of the world.
Richard Pachter of the Miami Herald offered his readers an early chance to read and review The Back of the Napkin. 
Back in mid February, he put my book on his reader's list, and his review just went live. I'm happy to say that Richard "got it":
That's where Dan Roam comes in.
His book does three big things really well. First, it presents a persuasive argument for employing simple iconography as a means of communicating and persuading. Next, he provides some important and powerful examples. Finally, he tells and shows how to do it.
Tom Crawford is a classy guy. Not only is he the CEO of VizThink, he also asked me to do a podcast with him about my book. But on top of all that, he then gave me *all the time I needed* to go into real detail on many of the big ideas in my book.
Thanks to Tom (and VizThink CTO Chris) you can now watch an animated version of an hour's worth of live "solving problems with pictures" as a podcast on the VizThink Blog.
Thanks Tom!
Paul Williams is an interesting guy. After leading marketing efforts at Starbucks and Disney, he headed to Amsterdam to found his own innovation lab, and Idea Sandbox was born. Among other ideas, every month Paul sponsors a virtual book tour where bloggers and authors meet.
This month, I'm honored that Paul selected The Back of the Napkin as the book in the spotlight.
Jeff De Cagna kicks off the tour on his Principled Innovation blog with a podcast we recorded yesterday.
Talking with Jeff was great. Among other things, he let me really go into detail on several of the aspects of visual thinking that I find most compelling. I appreciate all the time Jeff spent, and I hope you find the interview interesting.
I'm honored to be featured this week as Tom Peters' newest "cool friend". Several days ago, I had a wonderful interview with Erik Hansen of the Tom Peters company. It was supposed to last 30 minutes but instead we ended up talking for an hour and a half.
(On that note, thanks especially to Shelley Dolley and Cathy Mosca for an amazing editing job!)
It was such a pleasure to be included in Tom's list of "good idea people". Tom's book "Re-Imagine" was a huge inspiration for me a couple years ago when I embarked on the task of writing my own book. To now appear on Tom's site brings things nicely full circle.