I've read a good number of memoirs and biographies of both technical and artistic people, and I found "Creativity, Inc." to be a real snooze, except for the cha

I've read a good number of memoirs and biographies of both technical and artistic people, and I found "Creativity, Inc." to be a real snooze, except for the chapters about Steve Jobs and Catmull's own education history. It's not so much that the book is "boring" as that it's very light on non-sanitized opinions. The leadership advice Catmull offers is often of the caliber "listen to your people" or "remember to second-guess yourself when you think you're right", and then his examples almost use more name-recognition than actually interesting opinions and takes on the stories that happened. He says stuff like "we were working on <Famous Film> and it just wasn't working, so we convened a meeting with A, B, and C and eventually were able to rework the script so it worked." Yawn. Contrasted with the recollections of a guy like Feynman, it's just not a very interesting book. (Great cover design, though.) I suspect that Catmull is a shrewd, canny, clever man with a lot of anger and criticism for people, and I didn't think his book accurately represented the depth of his opinions or feelings. I could be TOTALLY wrong about that, maybe that really is how he thinks and remembers things, but I'd be surprised.