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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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@july
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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@july
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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@aweissman
oddly, or not, my favorite book about the creation/entrepreneurial journey and process is also by a comedian - Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
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Sounds a lot like “De” in Chinese, which is executing between Xing and Ming. Recognizing the right approach to the circumstances.
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waz
@itswaz.eth
Were you able to find an English version of this book? Trying to find it everywhere and I'm not able to unfortunately :( Sounds like the perfect book for me tbh, glad I came across your thread!
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@jdlewin.eth
always loved seeing Beat on screen but had no clue they wrote a book. thanks for sharing babe
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