New XKCD Book - Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

In "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words," things are explained using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words.

Here is an example called Up Goer Five.  It is a surprisingly simple explanation of Rocket Science.

 

150530 XKCD up_goer_five diagram

via XKCD.

Naming things and creating context are foundational tools of innovation.

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