059 - Making Sense of Language Messes with Abby Covert

Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. She is the author of the 2014 book, How to Make Sense of Any Mess, "a book to teach IA to everybody," and more recently, Stuck, Diagrams Help, a book for teaching the art of diagramming. In this episode of the podcast, Sophia and Abby talk about letting go of perfectionism in dealing with tech debt, the power of language and why words are hard, plus why diagramming is a high order skill. LINKS: Connect with Abby on LinkedIn. Keep up with Abby on her website. Purchase Abby's book, How to Make Sense of Any Mess. Purchase Abby's book, Stuck, Diagrams Help. Sign up for the OOUX for AI & AI for OOUX meetup, May 16, 2024 at 3:00PM. Upgrade your career with The Self-Paced OOUX Masterclass! Continue the conversation on the OOUX Forum!