Every diagram on The Writing King, in one place. Some explain how a book gets built, some explain how the internet works, and a fair number exist mainly to make a point by being funny. Each one links to the article it came from.
1,510 diagrams across 1,464 posts. Page 1 of 21.
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- A Lifelong Interest in the MoonA timeline of Richard Lowe's interest in the moon.In Who Else Wants to Know the Mystery Behind Luna?
- A quarter century on the webRichard Lowe's web history: starting in 2000 with 178 domain names and over 1,000 hand-coded pages; Internet-Tips, hundreds of affiliate articles; the hard drive crisis, a month of twenty minutes of copying then an...In From Hand-Coded HTML to WordPress Mastery: My 25-Year Web Journey
- A stamp collection, on and offA timeline of Richard's stamp collecting.In Stamp Collecting
- A stupid moment, then and nowA side by side comparison of what happened to an embarrassing public moment before and after cameras went everywhere.In Every Little Stupidity Enshrined Forever for All to See
- Asking Instead of RantingA five step approach to political conversations drawn from Richard Lowe's essay.In Ranting About Politics Does No Good
- Borrowed routine vs. the brain I haveA comparison of the productivity advice Richard tried for years and what he does since his AuDHD diagnosis.In How I Stopped Fighting My Brain: A Late AuDHD Diagnosis
- Bullied From Kindergarten to CollegeA timeline of the bullying Richard Lowe faced at each stage of school.In Bullies
- Childhood lessons versus the bright sideA comparison of the lessons Richard's family taught him as a child and the playbook he chose as an adult.In Living on the Bright Side of Life and Fears to Be Conquered
- Dated moments from the facts listA timeline of the dated facts on this page.In 87 Eye-Catching Facts About Richard Lowe
- Debt settlement by the numbersFour figures from Richard's experience with a debt settlement program after Claudia died.In Credit
- Desert hiking: before you go and if you get lostA six step sequence for desert hiking safety drawn from the page.In The Two Times the Desert Nearly Kept Me
- Dinner for four, seen from aboveFour diners sit at the four sides, each bent over a glowing blue rectangle: one scrolling, one texting, one photographing the food, and one arguing with a stranger.In Get Off the F'ing Phone!
- Eleven ways the news distorts the pictureEleven ways the structure of modern news distorts what readers see: it focuses on the bad, causes anxiety, misdirects, exaggerates corruption, strips context, stays shallow, reinforces echo chambers, is addictive, feeds group think, boosts...In What Is Fake News?
- Five Decades of a Geology PassionA timeline of Richard Lowe's lifelong interest in geology.In 5 Decade Passion About Geology: A Wonderful Personal Tale
- Five pillars of a life well livedRichard Lowe's philosophy as five pillars holding up a life well lived: life is meant to be lived actively, not watched; you create your own life, and others shape it only if you let...In Five Pillars of My Philosophy for a Life Well Lived
- From skipped birthdays to a week of celebrationA timeline of how Richard's relationship with his birthday changed.In My Birthday
- Getting a model comfortable on a shootThe sequence Richard uses to relax a model and get her best work.In Photoshoots
- How a swap meet started a lifelong habitA step diagram of how Richard discovered science fiction magazines.In Science Fiction Magazines
- How a troll hooks a conversationA loop showing the pattern Richard watched a troll he calls Tim use.In Don't Feed the Trolls
- How I beat Sauron by candlelightFour steps showing how Richard won a game of War of the Ring playing the weaker side.In Gaming Away the Hours
- How I listen across differencesFour steps Richard describes for understanding people whose experiences differ from his own.In Prejudice
- How I paint a fantasy miniatureA seven step process for painting a fantasy miniature, as Richard describes it.In Fantasy Miniatures
- How one hug rippled outwardA step diagram of the chain of events on this page.In How One Small Kindness Transformed My Entire World
- How prejudice does its workA sequence showing the mechanism Richard sees in every experience of prejudice he describes.In The Comments I Get...
- How Prejudice Runs the Same ProgramA four step sequence showing the mechanism Richard Lowe says every form of prejudice shares.In Why Do Some People Think Racism Is Okay?
Abouts
- How Richard Lowe got into computersHow Richard Lowe got into computing: in 1979, at nineteen, he penciled in a BASIC class as a third alternate to fill his schedule; his first program, a payroll printout, gave him a chill...In How I Got Into the Computer Field
- How Roni Zulu built the designThe order of work on Richard's tattoos with Roni Zulu.In The Art of Storytelling: My Journey Through Ink and Memory
- How to get through a traffic stopSix steps for handling a traffic stop drawn from Richard's essay.In Take the Ticket
- How to write a record worth keepingA five step sequence for writing a contemporaneous record.In What I Wrote on September 11, 2001
- Krakatoa from 1883 to 2026Activity began on 20 May 1883 and the island destroyed itself on 26 and 27 August, killing 36,417 people.In Krakatoa Is Erupting Again: What 1883 Did and What Anak Krakatau Is Doing Now
- One bus ride with SamThe arc of the bus ride that changed how Richard sees people.In An Incredible Bus Ride in 1967 That Changed My Life
- One skill wearing different uniformsRichard Lowe's range traced to one skill: listening for what a person means underneath what they say.In I Am a Polymath. What Does That Mean?
- Richard Lowe's life in six chaptersSix chapters of Richard Lowe's life: a childhood in a violent house spent learning to be invisible; the fire, finding books and the library at five and reading a book a day; the machines,...In Short Biography of Richard Lowe
- Six inches from a tarantula waspThe stages of Richard's 2004 encounter with a tarantula wasp at Anza-Borrego.In My Heart-Stopping Encounter with a Deadly Desert Wasp
- The cats in Richard Lowe's life and what each taught himThe cats in Richard Lowe's life in order: Big Mouth, the first goodbye, who vanished; Buttercup, who taught resilience; Tabby, Claudia's shadow, who taught loyalty; Midnight, who taught companionship in grief; the first Zeya,...In The Cats Who Taught Me to Cry: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Life Lessons on Four Paws
- The chain of failures that crashed the computer roomThe chain of failures in a computer room outage: the street power went out at seven on a Sunday morning; the generator ran but the transfer switch never switched, so the room went dark;...In Perfect Storm
- The earthquake night, rumble to reunionA timeline of the earthquake night Richard describes.In A Night of Terror
- The house we grew up in and the family she builtThe left side lists what Richard and Belinda grew up with in the house he calls Crazytown, and the right side lists what he saw in the family Belinda built, as he watched it at a park in San Jose.In My Sister Built the Family We Never Had
- The influences that led to the ghostwritingA sequence of the influences Richard credits for his love of history and his storytelling.In 7 Moments History Teachers Made Learning Exciting
- The road to the 1945 decisionA timeline of the events and plans the page sets out around the decision to use the atomic bombs.In Was the Atomic Bombing of Japan Necessary?
- The two halves of a lifeA timeline of the events behind the phoenix and dragon tattoos.In The Phoenix and the Dragon: The Story Behind My Tattoos
- What a stable job trades awayA two-sided comparison of what Richard had at Trader Joe's and what he gained by leaving.In Why I Left a Stable Job After 20 Years
- What I judge and what I don'tA side by side comparison of where Richard applies judgment.In Is It So Bad to Be Uncomfortable?
- What Richard Lowe never predicted and what never arrivedNever predicted: the fall of the Berlin Wall, a wristwatch with more computing power than a room-sized college computer, the World Trade Center collapse, the whole library of human knowledge in a pocket, phones...In What I Expected from Life
- What twenty years at Trader Joe's gave a ghostwriterFive skills from twenty years running computer operations at Trader Joe's that carry into ghostwriting: reading people, valuing variety, disciplined process, welcoming feedback, and adaptability and collaboration.In How 20 Years at Trader Joe's Enriched My Writing Career
- What Vernon taught by exampleA side by side comparison of how Richard handled emotion before and after watching his friend Vernon.In My Friend Vernon
- Who does the work in a hospitalA layered view of hospital work as Richard observed it during Claudia's stay.In The Worst Month of My Life
- Wrestling, Claudia and Mick FoleyA timeline of the dated moments in Richard's wrestling story.In How Mick Foley's Legacy Improved My Perspective
Artificial Intelligence
- 3D printing and AI hype cycles, 2013 to 2031A timeline setting the 3D printing hype cycle beside the AI one, using the dates the post gives.In What 3D Printing Taught Me About AI
- A year of articles, with and without AIA bar chart comparing yearly output from the post's arithmetic.In If You Are Not Using AI to Enhance Your Writing
Artificial Intelligence
- AI chips produced in 2025: Huawei vs. NvidiaHuawei produced an estimated 200,000 to 800,000 AI chips in 2025, against 4 to 5 million for Nvidia.In AI Data Centers and Geopolitics: Chips, China, Spies and Power
- AI detectors and non-native English writersHeadline figures from the 2023 Stanford study led by Weixin Liang.In AI Detection Cannot Be Evidence, and Publishing Is Using It That Way
- AI in customer service by the numbersFour figures from the article on where AI fits in customer service.In AI in Customer Service: What Actually Works
- AI time across one quiet professional's weekHorizontal bars show the example working week the post describes.In What serious AI adoption actually looks like, for the professional who isn't a tech person
- AI-prose bingoThe free center square is delve.In 40 AI Writing Phrases to Avoid (and What to Use Instead)
- Big Tech capital spending, 2025 vs. 2026The five biggest US cloud and AI companies spent roughly $380 billion on capital projects in 2025 and committed $660 billion to $690 billion for 2026, nearly double.In Who Gets Rich From AI Data Centers? The Local, National and Global Economy
- Big technologies take decades to show in the numbersA timeline of how long big technologies took to show up in productivity numbers.In AI Has Paid Off Outside Tech. Apollo Is Reading the Wrong Scoreboard.
- Bottleneck work and accessory workComparison of the work Pascual Restrepo says AGI will automate because growth depends on it, and the work AI could leave to people at capped wages.In A Yale Economist Says We Won't Be Missed. He Forgot the Bread Line.
- Checking what AI says about youA twenty minute check of what AI says about you.In What Does AI Say When Someone Searches Your Name?
- China-linked bots and the American data center fight, 2026China-linked bots and the American data center fight, 2026: Mar 2026: Gallup: 71% oppose a local data center; Jun 2026: OpenAI disrupts Data Center Bandwagon; Jun 2026: House panel asks FBI for a briefing;...In China Is Using Bots to Fan the Data Center Backlash. The Backlash Is Still Real.
- Clean reports in Anthropic's research testAnthropic asked three models to write a report on a company's quarterly results, failing any report with one invented number or quote.In Claude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for Writers
- Data center jobs: construction vs. permanentVantage Data Centers' campus near Reno projected more than 4,000 temporary construction jobs and 73 permanent jobs.In Who Gets Rich From AI Data Centers? The Local, National and Global Economy
- Dot-com and generative AI hype cycles, 1995 to 2027A timeline of the two technology hype cycles the post dates, the dot-com bubble and generative AI.In The AI Hype Cycle: Why the Crash Is Coming, and Who's Causing It
- Earlier fights over colorizing imagesA timeline of earlier fights over altering old images.In Grandma Isn't AI Slop: The Pile-On Over Restored Family Photos
- Editing an AI draft so it reads as humanSix ordered editing moves for an AI-assisted draft.In How to Make AI-Generated Content Feel Real
- Fiction authors: two camps, one surveyFor each statement, a blue bar shows the percent of AI users who agree and an orange bar the percent of nonusers who agree, on a 0 to 100% scale.In What the AI Writing Survey Says About Jobs, Freelancers and Fiction Authors
- Five cleanup passes for AI-assisted writingFive passes in order: delete common AI phrases, read aloud, kill qualifiers, inject imperfection, then check character voice.In The Cleanup Protocol: Removing AI Fingerprints From Your Writing
- Five steps to an AI prompt that worksFive steps for getting useful answers from AI.In "Forbidden" AI Prompts: Why Viral Prompt Lists Are Mostly Junk
- Four moves to start adopting AI at workA four step sequence for starting an AI rollout.In How to Adopt AI at Work Without Breaking Your Business
- Four questions to ask instead of a detector scoreFour questions an author can ask about a manuscript in place of running a detector.In What an AI Detector Score on Your Manuscript Is Worth
- From Shakespeare to AI tellA timeline of the not X but Y construction.In It's Not X, It's Y: The AI Tell Shakespeare Wrote First
- GPT-5 launch week by the numbersThree figures from GPT-5's August 2025 launch.In Your AI Vendor Just Murdered Your Kids' Future (And You Pay Them)
- High-water marks: AI slopMarks painted up the pier show the level rising year by year: 2022, a puddle; 2023, ankle deep; 2024, disclosure labels added; May 2026, downranking starts; and at the surface, July 30, 2026, the Seems like AI slop button.In Who Is Counting the AI Slop?
- How a platform AI label lands on human workSix steps showing how TikTok and Meta end up labeling human work as AI.In AI Labels on TikTok and Meta Are Flagging Human Work
- How a wrong word feeds an AI loopA four-step cycle showing why Brave's Leo AI kept repeating the same wrong actor.In "It Stars C. Thomas Howell. No." Why AI Gets Stuck in a Loop