Meet Joe Berlinger: The Director of Your Favorite True Crime Show
Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger shares how your best work rarely resembles what you set out to make; how he helped Metallica band members settle their creative differences; and how even the best reach a creative breaking point.
Google’s VP of Design Ivy Ross Draws Her Own Path
In an era where corporate leadership often looks and sounds homogeneous, Ivy Ross’s path to leading Google’s hardware design team feels delightfully rebellious.
How MIT Director Amos Winter Innovates By Day, Tinkers on Cars By Night
Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center at MIT, believes the best business cases improve lives on a global scale.
The People’s Champion: Teo Connor on Leadership, Conviction, and Craft at Airbnb
In this conversation, Teo Connor shares how the best creative work always serves a purpose, why “taste” is really about good judgment, and how she’s building cardboard clocks with her kids.
How James Cook Uses a Typewriter to Push Boundaries and Create the Spectacular
From his home base in London, James Cook has “typed” everything from a picture of London’s Royal Albert Hall to its Battersea Power Station. Here, he shares what he sees when he looks at a keyboard, and how that transforms into artwork quite like nothing else.
Leopoldo Gout’s Wildly Obsessive Creative Life
Leopoldo Gout is relentlessly curious, creative, and overly generous. And he tells himself stories in order to live. Here, he shares why he moves between disciplines, how he works with memory, and what he does when he finds a good story.