Were you going sketching this afternoon?

So, remember the sketching task we did at the beginning?

Possibly. I do quite a bit of sketching around. Why?

As a teenager, I was sketching, drawing, and I wanted to be an artist.

They were just some ideas I was sketching for my costume for the ball.

And then, on the other side of the room, the designers are making small adjustments, sketching, drawing by hand, putting it in the computer.

32 Munro, N. (1996). Sketching a national information warfare defense plan , Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, vol. 39, No. 11, pp. 15 18.

In either case, the Competition Board reaches a decision on the basis of an economic case study of the operation, sketching its positive effects and its negative effects.

Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

Or even the people who actually pulled it off, who just would sketch out these structures of what would eventually become a worldwide network, and sketching things on the back of napkins and on note papers and arguing over dinner at Howard Johnson's on Route 128 in Lexington, Massachusetts, just two miles from where I was studying the Queen's Gambit Deferred singing Midnight Train to Georgia, while in my dad's big easy chair, you know?