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Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace's 2014 account of how Pixar built a creative organization — covering the Braintrust, the dailies process, the principle of 'be wrong as fast as you can,' and the specific mechanisms for maintaining a candid, high-trust creative culture.
Ed Catmull's 2014 book about building and maintaining Pixar's creative culture — from the founding through Toy Story, the Disney acquisition, and beyond — structured as a manual for how to manage creative people without killing their creativity.
2008 Pixar animated film directed by Andrew Stanton — depicting a small waste-collecting robot left alone on an abandoned Earth — nearly silent for its first act — a formally experimental animated film combining ecological warning, love story, and critique of consumer passivity into the most acclaimed Pixar production.