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Creativity, Inc.
by Ed Catmull
★★★★☆
A thoughtful book about building teams where quality survives pressure.
Read December 14, 2025
My notes
I expected a Pixar story and got a management book about protecting honesty. The best parts are about how fragile creative work becomes when people stop saying what they actually see.
The Braintrust idea stuck with me: feedback is useful when it is candid, specific, and not attached to authority. That's a hard culture to build, but it maps well to product and engineering teams too.