I Learned Very Early On

Our Brains Have Just One Scale, And We Resize Our Experiences To Fit.

I Learned Very Early On In Life That Not Everyone Wants To Hear Every Fact In The World, Even If You Want To Tell Them Everything You've Ever Read.

I Think The Comic That's Gotten Me The Most Feedback Is Actually The One About The Stoplights. Noticing When The Stoplights Are In Sync, Or Calculating The Length Of Your Strides Between Floor Tiles - Normal People Notice That Kind Of Stuff, But A Certain Kind Of Person Will Do Some Calculations.

One Of The Things I've Learned With Doing 'xkcd' Is That You Sort Of Give People, 'here's The Thing, And Here's The Button You Can Press To Get Another Thing.' Sometimes That Can Be More Easy To Digest Than, 'here's A Long Page Of Things.

Take Wrong Turns. Talk To Strangers. Open Unmarked Doors. And If You See A Group Of People In A Field, Go Find Out What They Are Doing. Do Things Without Always Knowing How They'll Turn Out.