By adding some humor and visual cues to help me better remember the salient points. Personally, I don't find pg's writing style especially compelling, so I don't always remember the content of his essays as well as I'd like. Also, in this format I could print it as a poster and stick it on the wall.
You don't have to like it. I did. So to Anna (the creator of this graphic, whose comment appears to have been flagged by some grumpy person) yes, it does help.
This is the nicesest coment I've ever got on hacker news.
Glad you find it usefull as a poster, that's how we started thinking about it.
PG essay are awesome, but there are so many of them, that it's hard to keep all in one head. We did this to help myself remember.
I agree with anigbrowl, and I've read somewhere that 90% of the information our brain receives is visual. Secondly, i believe, the Infographics must have some eye catching facts and figures.
