The Tactile Advantage: How Physical Engagement with Ideas Promotes Problem Solving

Getting past the keyboard and stylus.

Gray Miller
8 min readMar 9, 2024

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I love it when someone tries to diminish the utility of images for expressing ideas. There’s a kind of idea that pictures — especially hand-drawn ones — are somehow inferior to the written language. “Why would I draw pictures? I just write the stuff down.”

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Gray Miller

Gray is a former Marine dancer grandpa visualist who writes to help adults figure out what they want to be when they grow up.