Touching and browsing through The Art of Insight feels like the end of a journey. While writing it I thought that this would be my last word about visualization and infographics; I've said a lot —perhaps too much— about our trade already, and I've often wondered whether it's time to shut my mouth and instead help raise younger, fresher, and wiser voices —as a book editor, for instance, a job that I greatly enjoy.
(In his enthusiastic review of The Art of Insight, Frank Elavsky wrote that I'm “a caretaker of the lost.” That's the highest praise I've ever received, I believe. Indeed, if you feel lost, I'm here to help —but please send me your book pitch, too!)
What comes next? On the one hand, I wish to write about topics that have nothing to do with graphics. On the other, at the end of The Art of Insight I hint that there's a new idea sloshing and slowly taking shape inside my skull, so who knows; time with tell.
