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Connect the dots backwards

Paths, mixing disciplines, learning as a lifelong skill, and why to read this on paper. 14 panels.

Status: draft · book v1.0.0 (the second edition does not exist yet) · gen-z.journalist, 18 October 2026, from Dinis's memo on paths and learning. Every line the Guide says, and every quote card, is Dinis's words from the article 'Connect the dots backwards', word for word, including the Jobs quote as the article gives it; the build checks it. Swipe, use the arrow keys, or the buttons; Notes shows what each panel is for and its source; Full screen for an iPad.

The panels

  1. 1. Connect the dots backwards (cover; Connect the dots backwards)
  2. 2. Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005 (scene; Connect the dots backwards, Connect the dots backwards)
  3. 3. His dots, connected backwards (spectrum; Steve Jobs, Stanford, 12 June 2005)
  4. 4. The edge (scene; Connect the dots backwards, The edge is multidisciplinary)
  5. 5. How we teach maths (scene; Connect the dots backwards, We teach maths as if to make people hate it)
  6. 6. What just happened while writing this book (scene; Connect the dots backwards, Generative AI lets you explore again)
  7. 7. The beauty of it (evidence; Connect the dots backwards, This is about you)
  8. 8. When it feels like too much (scene; Connect the dots backwards, This is about you)
  9. 9. Geography no longer decides (scene; Connect the dots backwards, Learning is a lifelong skill)
  10. 10. Take it seriously (punchline; Connect the dots backwards, Learning is a lifelong skill)
  11. 11. You, reading this (scene; Connect the dots backwards, You are already in a small minority)
  12. 12. Read it on paper, with a pen (scene; Connect the dots backwards, Read it on paper, with a pen)
  13. 13. Trust your own way of thinking (scene; Connect the dots backwards, I think in graphs)
  14. 14. From answers to questions (the next article) (punchline; Connect the dots backwards, From answers to questions)

The data is connect-the-dots-backwards.json and cast.json; the panels are drawn in your browser from it, by assets/storyboard.js with Rough.js. Nothing is an image file: change the JSON, rebuild, and every panel is redrawn.