Kyle Harrison
to-read
Creativity, Inc.
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
- Author
- Ed Catmull
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 368
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Catmull on how Pixar was run — the Braintrust, candour as a management practice, and the argument that protecting a new idea while it is still bad is the whole job.
Where I saw it: In the reply thread to @WillManidis’s question, “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on what is the single best book… (tweet). It was listed there as “Creativity, Inc.”.
Connections
- Ed Catmull — Author and Pixar co-founder.
- Pixar — The company the book is about.
- Film — The industry it explains from the inside.
- Management — The book’s actual subject.
- Steve Jobs — Pixar’s owner through the period the book covers.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.