{"id":4447,"date":"2011-07-28T12:23:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2023-06-02T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:33:03","slug":"%e2%80%aaa-day-in-the-life-of-john-lasseter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/%e2%80%aaa-day-in-the-life-of-john-lasseter\/","title":{"rendered":"\u202aA Day In The Life of John Lasseter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really cool insights into how Pixar, and John specifically, makes the magic.<\/p>\n<p>5 things I noticed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The teams applaud after every successful review, even the short daily ones.<\/li>\n<li>John sees himself as the head &#8220;cheerleader&#8221; for his film crew, and his personality reflects that. Even negative feedback is done with positive reinforcement for the team.<\/li>\n<li>John uses cool custom-built applications to review work and record feedback. Benefits of close ties to Apple!<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;atrium&#8221; in the headquarters building perks him up several times a day. Having something inspiring and natural that you pass through regularly seems like a great workspace design principle.<\/li>\n<li>His line about &#8220;the art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art&#8221; seems like something worth aspiring to in a creative role at any tech company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iZre2MUyvoQ&amp;feature=player_embedded\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really cool insights into how Pixar, and John specifically, makes the magic. 5 things I noticed: The teams applaud after every successful review, even the short daily ones. John sees himself as the head &#8220;cheerleader&#8221; for his film crew, and his personality reflects that. Even negative feedback is done with positive reinforcement for the team&#8230;.<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/%e2%80%aaa-day-in-the-life-of-john-lasseter\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,345,354,373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-films","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-19J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6318,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}