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Lessons from the book Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, Ph.D. (co-founder of Pixar)

Manny Vallarino · March 10, 2023 ·

How fully I recommend this book: 10/10

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Lessons from the book All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business, by Mel Brooks

Manny Vallarino · February 15, 2023 ·

How fully I recommend this book: 7/10

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Lessons from the book Paul Simon: The Life, by Robert Hilburn

Manny Vallarino · January 28, 2023 ·

How fully I recommend this book: 9/10

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Lessons from the Harvard Program on Negotiation

Manny Vallarino · January 20, 2023 ·

For this essay, I reinterpreted and reorganized parts of the Harvard course material — and drew on some of my own experiences, examples, and ideas — solely for educational purposes under Fair Use. I also asked for and got Harvard’s permission to write this. So: Please don’t sue me, Harvard. Please.

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Lessons from My Father

Manny Vallarino · January 20, 2023 ·

The original draft of this essay was titled: “Lessons from My Biological Father”.

I wrote it during the winter of 2021, and it was the heaviest thing I had ever written, to the point where, as you can tell, I decided to not share it.

It made Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment seem like a feel-good love story in comparison.¹

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