David Epstein
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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And then it's act slow because once there's so much momentum, it's actually hard to adjust to these lessons that you're learning while you're going.
The reverse.
What do you call
think slow, act fast, was spending time being small.
And defining the boundaries and picking up defining those smaller problems you're gonna start with.
And then when you move into execution, you can act much more quickly.
And or as he c colloquially he said, Pixar planning.
So one of the reasons I wanted to write a bunch about Pixar is because in his work he said that Pixar planning is like the best way of planning.
And he was talking about all these sorts of rules and constraints they have, but all but things like
To your point.
Where they will keep a director in story development for with a tiny team for years.
Forcing them to refine the core of that story.
What is it about?
Stripping away characters.
That's why there was no ennui in Schadenfreud in the first Inside Out, as they were stripping it away, making it simpler.
And it might seem really inefficient to
Spend years in that mode.
But the costs only explode once they move into production and complexity explodes.
And so if they can stay in that small group, then when they really have the boundaries defined, they move into production that they can act really quickly.
And they were always finding ways to be small to your point.
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