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Books I learned from the most on how to create a product: - Let My People Go Surfing (Chouinard) - Thinking Architecture (Zumthor) - Free Play (Nachmanovich) - S, M, L, XL (Koolhaas) - How Buildings Learn (Brand) - Sculpting in Time (Tarkovsky) - LOTR series But honestly, one of my favorite books was…
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It’s a book by a famous comedian / philosopher/ artist, Beat Takeshi. In Japanese there is a concept of mā, which is sort of like timing, or space. In Japanese if you say you are 「間抜け」(without mā) it means you don’t have mā, it means you don’t get it (I.e. you’re in idiot) But it really gets into what mā is. I think art, products, marketing, comedy - it’s all about spacing and timing. And how difficult that is, because getting the spacing and timing means both understanding your environment and executing it (practice and discipline) I think about this book. Loved this book tbh
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Also this book is so good. If anything, it was a book that really just reaffirmed a lot of stuff I didn’t have words for but had to figure out myself, but I feel like if I had read it earlier, I would have noticed earlier - how to improvise, how to create
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What I love about Peter Zumthor’s books are he does give a fuck about what you think or what you think you should think, he’s just gonna write what he feels like
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Also speaking of red books, I loved this book too. Gerry Lopez, a legend. For me it’s the mindset you have to arrive at before you can create is 90% of creating anything
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Not much to say about this one except Tarkovsky
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I’m also gonna add Kitchen Confidential here because, reading it you might not think about it’s about product, but it couldn’t be more about it. Because a product isn’t just a product it’s about telling a story, and Tony does an amazing job at telling stories he’s really the best and his passion for people and stories is unparalleled
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A really funny almost, book. One time I went to a Bruce Mau lecture, the dude brought a 125 slide PowerPoint to a 15 minute lecture which he obviously did not finish. Kinda gives you the sense of S,M,L,XL - also Koolhaas is interesting
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