Braintrust
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2023 by Ed Catmull · across every show →
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Dec 5, 2023 positive
Catmull: Detaching contributors from their ideas makes creative feedback work
“For me, the magic means that people throw out ideas and they're not attached to them. If they help and they're accepted, good. If they don't help and they're not used, that's okay too, because you're not attached to them. And what we're trying to do is to figu…”
Dec 5, 2023
Catmull: Pixar's Braintrust could suggest ideas but never override directors
“What they were supposed to do was to point out the problems, discuss it, make suggestions, but they couldn't tell people how to solve the problem. They couldn't override the director, and all this frankly was just to get it so that the director was free to lis…”