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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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