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Colette Molteni's avatar

Life doesn’t have to be overcomplicated - true words. Your Chiquita method simplifies the prioritization process. As I was reading this, I could easily even start sorting through my projects mentally and know which ones were green, yellow or speckled. Thank you Francisca for sharing your framework.

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Francisca Diamond Casais's avatar

Thank YOU, for leaving feedback! Let me know if the Miro template (or Figjam coming soon soon) is helpful for you/ your teams if you ever use it!

I'd love to get feedback!

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Mark's avatar

Ah Chiquita, great stuff, almost felt like being back at college with the teacher who was able to put a fun spin on things.

The creative use of bananas is really ripe for illustrating this method.

I have lots of each type of banana so I'm going to go through and rotate, get to the ripe ones before they spoil!

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Francisca Diamond Casais's avatar

I'm imagining myself bringing bananas to the facilitation workshops I'll do at work in person during 2025 just to make really visible - like this physics teacher that is 200% passionate about teaching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCIaVfjXLH4 hahaa thank you Mark!

Sometimes ideas are like bananas because I might do a banana flambee and it doesn't matter what I'm using, but sometimes I need to not have it mushed up, and I need a green one. At work, when writing, etc. we all need to adapt depending on our needs! Rotating the fruit basket is needed though!

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Mark's avatar

I've seen a few of her experiments before, she's really cool. I had a physics teacher a bit like that, he could do logarithmic calculations in his head and was quite eccentric.

Yes you of course do need to take bananas to your workshops, and you know what else you need to do, turn them into business cards. Add stickers, or otherwise get your details on them then give them to the attendees.

You must do this now and send me a picture.

You can also make reference to the $6.2m banana sale that happened recently and have some duct taped to the wall, then you can tell your clients what a good deal they got getting them for free.

Sorry. I had banana related ideas and just ran with them.

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Francisca Diamond Casais's avatar

I was on the fence with a procreate sketches banana-duct-tape to make a joke about it and prioritization 😂 great Minds think alike kind of.

I just didn’t go so far on the monetization hahah

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Mark's avatar

Bananas are so hot right now, you've got to make hay while the sun shines🤣

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Tapan Desai's avatar

I really enjoyed this, the chiquita method - it’s sticky. Also, love your writing style!

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Francisca Diamond Casais's avatar

Thank you Tapan!

I've finally used Procreate for doodles! I had been playing around a bit for 2 months now, but after our conversation, I felt inspired to just do it! Now I just need to improve my handwriting, haha.

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Tapan Desai's avatar

Aaah that’s good to know. Procreate is amazing! You can find some handwriting fonts on dafont.com or other sites which are free to use. Install them on Procreate, it will be much easier 😉

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Francisca Diamond Casais's avatar

for this time I did the not-so-automatic way of sharing via e-mail as png, to upload on figma and edit it out, but that is probably easier! haha Thanks for the tips!

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