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Obligatory link to an excellent John Cleese talk "John Cleese on Creativity In Management": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g https://www.youtube.com/

Obligatory link to an excellent John Cleese talk "John Cleese on Creativity In Management": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

joestrong 6y ago
You beat me to posting this. It's a great video - I often revisit this video for creative inspiration.
- Jugurtha 6y ago
  There is also a book titled "creativity - a short and cheerful guide"[0] but I haven't yet read it. [0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224638/creativity-by-john-cleese/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224638/creativity-b...
zonovar 6y ago
Great video, I think I've watched it at least once a year since I found it.
lliamander 6y ago
Great video, thanks for the link! I think this really ties into the ideas from Rich Hickey's talk "Hammock Driven Development"
- Jugurtha 6y ago
  One live example of this was a scene from a documentary about the music group "Swedish House Mafia" titled "Take One"[0]. The documentary follows them around the world, "during 253 gigs, in 23 countries, between 2008 and 2010", but there is one scene that shows the creation of one of their greatest hits, a track titled "One". In that scene[1], you see them fooling around in their studio, playing. Then Axwell hits a few notes. Then Sebastian Ingrosso joins in, and they lock on and get in the zone and start tweaking it. You could see the shift in the "mode" as they build it. This scene sent shivers down my spine. The final version[2] had tremendous success. There was a thread a few months ago titled "Cloudflare TV"[3]. I replied that I expected it to be "TV stream that filmed Cloudflare teams solving problems". Their CTO said it was an interesting idea and gives links to resources you might like, too. - [0]: https://youtu.be/6BhMc0HsJnk https://youtu.be/6BhMc0HsJnk - [1]: https://youtu.be/6BhMc0HsJnk?t=2211 https://youtu.be/6BhMc0HsJnk?t=2211 - [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkQ5rEJaTmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkQ5rEJaTmk - [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451334 - [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23452034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23452034
nicklaf 6y ago
When I found this video (on Hacker News) many years ago, it had a profound influence on my thinking. I still reflexively think about his words in this talk, from time to time.

Obligatory link to an excellent John Cleese talk "John Cleese on Creativity In Management": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

joestrong 6y ago

You beat me to posting this. It's a great video - I often revisit this video for creative inspiration.

Jugurtha 6y ago
There is also a book titled "creativity - a short and cheerful guide"[0] but I haven't yet read it. [0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224638/creativity-by-john-cleese/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224638/creativity-b...

zonovar 6y ago

Great video, I think I've watched it at least once a year since I found it.

lliamander 6y ago

Great video, thanks for the link! I think this really ties into the ideas from Rich Hickey's talk "Hammock Driven Development"

Jugurtha 6y ago
One live example of this was a scene from a documentary about the music group "Swedish House Mafia" titled "Take One"[0]. The documentary follows them around the world, "during 253 gigs, in 23 countries, between 2008 and 2010", but there is one scene that shows the creation of one of their greatest hits, a track titled "One". In that scene[1], you see them fooling around in their studio, playing. Then Axwell hits a few notes. Then Sebastian Ingrosso joins in, and they lock on and get in the zone and start tweaking it. You could see the shift in the "mode" as they build it. This scene sent shivers down my spine. The final version[2] had tremendous success. There was a thread a few months ago titled "Cloudflare TV"[3]. I replied that I expected it to be "TV stream that filmed Cloudflare teams solving problems". Their CTO said it was an interesting idea and gives links to resources you might like, too. - [0]: https://youtu.be/6BhMc0HsJnk https://youtu.be/6BhMc0HsJnk - [1]: https://youtu.be/6BhMc0HsJnk?t=2211 https://youtu.be/6BhMc0HsJnk?t=2211 - [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkQ5rEJaTmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkQ5rEJaTmk - [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451334 - [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23452034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23452034

nicklaf 6y ago

When I found this video (on Hacker News) many years ago, it had a profound influence on my thinking. I still reflexively think about his words in this talk, from time to time.