Crazy Wisdom
Ryan Delk of Omni - Our Thoughts on Creativity Inc
- Consciousness & Philosophy
- Creativity & Craft
- creativity
- creative management
- pixar
- organizational culture
- stress and creativity
- leadership
- book discussion
About this episode
I sit down with Ryan Delk after both of us read Creativity Inc By Ed Catmull. This is part of a series I'm doing where I ask someone what they are reading, we read it, and then have a conversation about it.
Creativity Inc truly inspired me. It is like a guidebook for how to be creative when other people are involved. So many gems.
Episode transcript
Everyone sees a huge amount of opportunity ahead of the company or they wouldn't join. And so especially if you have people who are really excited and really passionate, which hopefully you do, you can. There's a risk of sort of always thinking about and getting excited and a lot of cultural energy, you know, going towards things that aren't the most important thing at that moment.
Hi, my name is Stuart Allsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years, crazy people in order to solve them.
So welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. This is a special episode where I'm going to be interviewing Ryan Delk from Omni, COO of Omni, about our thoughts on the book Creativity Inc. So this is a new kind of. It's almost like a crazy wisdom book club where we're going to talk about a book that we both read and kind of get the main points of it out there so that you, the listener, don't necessarily have to read the book in order to get the main points of it. So welcome to the show, Ryan. Really excited to have you on.
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