I think it's fun, is, and I guess the Alby Ray Smith and Ed Catmull falls in this, too, one of the things that good bosses do in any large bureaucracy there ends up being some idiocy from on high and part of your job as a boss is to protect your people from idiocy from on high. And my favorite example of this was in, this was so long ago, like 1986. Ijust moved back from California, I did my dissertation on organizational death in Michigan, the process in which organizations are unwound. And I read that a large bank was closing 125
Will we not go bankrupt? say it is absolute idiocy , it is lunacy, it is wrong, it is evil, it is bad.
happens in other species when they interbreed. When a plant interbreeds with itself, there's a lot of genetic defects. It's like the Hapsburgs with idiocy and hemophilia. So, with vines that are--. A lot of the seeds are not viable. They're not productive and they grow weakly. There's a lot of problems. So, what you really wanna do is actually hybridize them, rather than take the grapes from the seeds themselves, from the plants themselves.
You've talked about the art part, and I want to get to the faith. But I can't not ask you about the idiocy of the title. Why did you choose to include that in the title, and what do you mean by that?
Why did you choose to include that in the title, and what do you mean by that? Well, part of the idiocy is just the stupid things that I've done and the things that I've experienced. I wanted to really make myself vulnerable in the book.
because the characters who know will be explaining it to this dummy. It's a concept called the joy of idiocy in writing craft. You always keep an idiot around to ask questions as a surrogate for the reader, so that-- hopefully-- the idiot asks the questions that the reader wants answered,
blogosphere where people only subscribe to the blogs of the people who agree with them and there's never any dissent or constructive Counterpoint um so you end up with basically idiocy in some sense right um and so that's one of the challenges with recommendations and search engines it's very hard to get
Robeez, those little slippers, but they do seem to generate all the time and at an ever increasing into full pitch hysterical battles, the subtext of which not only do you and I don't agree with each other but your opinion and fundamental idiocy makes you the worst mother in the world. And it's in this kind of poisonous sludge in the comments section that we're all seeing the worst in people. I will say that some of the
I've made a lot of mistakes on this road, of all kinds. You know, it's not really an idiocy thing, but one of the chapters is called "How I Bombed on Broadway." and I think it's a very telling story at the center.
for again, things like that. One of the characteristics that comes back over and over again is this notion that my boss has my back. My boss will protect me. And so this notion is the best bosses protect their people from harm, all sorts of idiocy . I can tell you a story I heard from Pixar just yesterday because it's better than any of mine. I'll go through whatever ones I have. So, I, I gave this example and there was one guy afterwards and he told me worked for Pixar 28 years. I didn't even realize it was that old. So, so I guess you have a
It's good. Because, first of all, in most companies, at least some people are already thinking that the CEO is a bit of an idiot. But it's actually really reassuring to see someone like a CEO say, you know, I'm aware of my idiocy . It's not escaped me.
society is headed towards vertical integration and we were just like nobody will do anything for us so we're going to take profits from Puffy Chair and make a movie. Um, and that caveman thinking again that that ignorance and and slight idiocy was good for us. Um, so after baghead sold, our agents called us in. They said, "Congratulations, guys. You've worked so hard up to this
I am very excited to welcome to Google today the great actor and comedian Rainn Wilson. He's here to talk about his new memoir "The Bassoon King-- My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy ." Now, we all know Rainn as the lovable Dwight Schrute from NBC's "The Office." But the thing is that through "The Bassoon King," Rainn really lets us know who he really is
I think the title of the book-- in and of itself it's a microcosm of the book, because you have "The Bassoon King," a fun title. But you also have the subtitle-- "My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy ." And I really like how in the beginning, in the special thanks section, you thank your dad for teaching you about art and faith.