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Ep 8: Sketch Before You Code feat. Joy (Johanna Mesa Ramos)
In episode eight, I sit down with Joy, a senior software engineer, tech lead, digital artist, lifter, and professional anime binger. She finds joy in figuring out how complex things work, whether that's software, anatomy, or building a physique. We talk about visual thinking as a skill, not as art, as a technical tool.
Why drawing a problem out, even a messy scribble, surfaces gaps that talking through it never does
The rubber duck technique, but visual, and why a drawing gives people something to literally point at instead of relying on memory
The real test for whether you actually…
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