197: Fail Fast

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2014

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

We love Pixar, and we’re a bunch of creative professional types. So as you can imagine, we devoured “Creativity Inc.”, by Pixar president Ed Catmull. Is it a business book or an anti-business book? How do you foster creativity? Is Pixar’s formula one that provides safety while preventing works of staggering genius? How much is a director or writer the author of a Pixar movie, and how much is the studio itself? And is the wild success of “Frozen” proof of anything?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 197, June 2014.
0:15.8	Welcome back to The Inconparable podcast. I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:18.8	We're here to talk about a book, but this is a little bit different from our normal book club. This is a work of nonfiction, but it's by somebody who is a major player in a major creative endeavor and one that we've podcasted about before and that we love a lot, which is Pixar. We're going to talk about Creativity, Inc. The book by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace. Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar for many years and now runs both Pixar and
0:44.2	Walt Disney Animation with John Lasseter.
0:46.9	And he wrote this book that is partially a memoir of his time at Pixar and partially a
0:53.6	management book about how he has managed the creative
0:58.2	culture at Pixar, which I think is an interesting conversation to have too. And there are lots of
1:03.2	things to talk about. I have a panel full of people who are raring to go to talk about this subject.
1:08.5	I love it as a host when that happens because I feel like I can just
1:11.3	sort of lean back and I'll go get a glass of water at one point. You won't even know I'm gone
1:15.0	because anyway, my panelists are Glenn Fleshman. Welcome back, Glenn. Nice to see you finally.
1:22.0	It's such a pleasure to have broken the surface of the water tension and come through
1:26.4	like Nemo. I found myself.
1:30.1	Okay, that's a reference.
1:32.4	Lisa Schmeiser also here.
1:34.0	Hello.
1:34.8	Thank you.
1:35.2	It's nice to be here.
1:36.8	John Syracusa is here.
1:39.1	So excited to be on a book club episode,
1:41.8	even if it is non-fiction and even if it's not an 800-page book about
1:45.2	wizards.
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