David Foster Wallace: This is Water
David Foster Wallace's 2005 Kenyon College commencement address is one of the most celebrated speeches of our time— a meditation on awareness, empathy, and the invisible "default setting" that governs how we move through daily life.
This visual guide breaks the speech open, mapping its narrative arc and core themes through infographics, timelines, and illustrated frameworks that make Wallace's ideas about awareness, choice, and the "default setting" easier to absorb and return to.
Tim Minchin’s 9 Life Lessons
Comedian and musician Tim Minchin returned to his alma mater in 2013 to deliver one of the most-watched graduation speeches of all time — a witty, irreverent, and deeply humane set of nine rules for living well.
From the case against grand dreams to why you should judge people by how they treat the powerless, this visual guide distills every lesson into something you can carry with you.