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The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books and Visualizing Our World
by possibly noteworthy at 10:43 pm EDT, Jun 24, 2008

This presentation feels akin to a new Disney ride: During your tour inside David Macaulay’s imagination, prepare to soar over Rome’s great monuments, raft within the human body’s circulatory system, and dismantle and rebuild the Empire State Building.

I fondly remember Macaulay's early books.

Watch for the mention of why hotel toilet paper is folded that way. I was also reminded of this:

Ira Glass: "Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap."

Also:

Failure is an essential part of the process. "The way you say this is: 'Please fail very quickly -- so that you can try again'," says Eric Schmidt, CEO at Google.


 
 
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