This isn’t really a reply to the article, but where are you making the little causal diagrams with the arrows? I suddenly am having a desire to use little tools like that to think about my own problems.
Those are just screenshots of diagrams made in Google Docs using the “Insert Drawing” feature!
Not what Stephen used, but I recently tried https://excalidraw.com/ for causal diagrams after seeing it in a post by Nuño and was happy with it.
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This isn’t really a reply to the article, but where are you making the little causal diagrams with the arrows? I suddenly am having a desire to use little tools like that to think about my own problems.
Those are just screenshots of diagrams made in Google Docs using the “Insert Drawing” feature!
Not what Stephen used, but I recently tried https://excalidraw.com/ for causal diagrams after seeing it in a post by Nuño and was happy with it.