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A photo of a whiteboard, sketch, or physical artifact is a legitimate capture method — and for spatial, visual, or environmental information, it is the superior one.
A mental model you cannot draw is a mental model you cannot examine. The models that govern your decisions most powerfully are the ones you have never made visible — and therefore never inspected, never tested, and never improved.
The act of mapping relationships generates new insights about the system. You do not map what you already understand — you map in order to understand. The diagram is not a record of finished thinking. It is the medium in which thinking happens.