Thursday, March 22, 2012

Bathroom Creativity

"He wanted there to be mixing. He knew that the human friction makes the sparks, and that when you're talking about a creative endeavor that requires people from different cultures to come together, you have to force them to mix; that our natural tendency is to stay isolated, to talk to people who are just like us, who speak our private languages, who understand our problems. But that's a big mistake. And so his design was to force people to come together even if it was just going to be in the bathroom." -exerpt from Jonah Leer's new book, Imagine about Steve Jobs insisting there only be two centrally located bathrooms at the Pixar studios. Read more at NPR.org.

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