Craig Aucutt

Seasoned design leader, Currently designing @IntuitiveSurg

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@amasad Beautiful installations!

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

Beautiful remarks from Ed Catmull, founder of Pixar on how to work with others.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

A conversation with Ed Catmull, founder of Pixar. I've been making podcasts about Ed for over 8 years. He invited me to his home and told incredible stories from his 60 year career. Ed worked with Steve Jobs longer than anyone else — for more than a quarter century. We talked about what he learned from Steve, the founding of Pixar, building a company at the intersection of art and technology, why getting the team right is the necessary precursor to getting the idea right, and so much more.

Ed is full of hard-earned practical wisdom. Spending time with someone I’ve studied for almost a decade was awesome.

I hope you listen.

0:00 Most Companies Are Full Of Shit
4:28 The Brain Trust Mechanism
10:13 Why Steve Jobs Was Banned From The Braintrust
17:48 Your Job Is To Manage The Dynamics
23:27 Betting The Company On Toy Story
24:35 Engineering Eisner's Worst Nightmare
36:51 Bob Iger's Crappy Hand
38:44 Why Disney Never Asked What Pixar Was Doing
43:48 Take The Hard Problem
44:38 The Director Can't Lose The Team
48:48 Quality Is The Best Business Plan
52:32 What Walt Disney Taught Him
59:25 George Lucas And The Motion Blur Problem
1:08:48 Now What's The Point Of My Life
1:13:31 How Much Of This Was Me
1:16:10 George Lucas Wanted The Whole Industry Healthy
1:25:11 Refusing To Let Anyone Feel Second Class
1:32:38 The Truck In The Building

Includes paid partnerships.

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@jayrizpop Wow, Beautiful Site @jayrizpop !

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@joshpuckett Really cool idea, excited for the next one!

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

Such a great talk the other day at the @gantridesigns shop with @ianyang_ and @ammunitiongroup As they discuss their collaboration on the new wireless platform by Gantri. Beautiful work in a beautiful space

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@benhylak Really cool stuff! Love the take on benchmarking.

Congrats!

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

Ammunition Group absolutely crushed it with the new Gantri wireless charger 🦾 https://t.co/flS1HgwXIr

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

With the latest @gantri latest wireless launch, highly recommend checking out the Gantri Shop to learn more! https://t.co/u1YHcTxsmV

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@gantridesigns I love the status indication on the tray and the seemless design. done by the wonderful @ammunitiongroup

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

Wanna know what is also really cool about the latest @gantridesigns wireless launch? the Wireless tray for commercial customers needing to quickly keep lights at full status. 😍 https://t.co/n2CGCgnCbg

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@gantridesigns has just launched wireless lights that are so beautiful https://t.co/f3oZH7cQ5W Highly suggest checking them out! I think my favorite part is the puck charger 😍

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

The @Rivian R2 Launch event at Palo Alto was fun but dang the 1hr 40min line was rough. Still an exciting and beautiful product.

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@Wattenberger I love how I can see the attention and care put into this home comes out in this site

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@getthinkable Beautiful story and work!

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@joshpuckett Beautiful! 👌

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

Hard to top a California Golden Hour 👌

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

With this new update, one of my favorite new features is the focused mode for documents, tasks, and files. With various controls you can really create your moment of zen.

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

In the spirit of building in public, I want to share some updates to a tool I’ve been making on the side to help me at least eliminate subscriptions and boost productivity. It's a productivity tool with a suite of modules. Such as files, tasks and more wrapped into one

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

New favorite feature unlocked! a Spatial Canvas to see all docs, tasks, files for a space in a interactive canvas. Where I can link, zoom in/out and have my agents help drill in. More to come soon.

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

It's sad that at Evernote we had this over 12 years ago. Had it all in our hands 😭

[Notion @NotionHQ]

ICYMI: we shipped Presentation Mode!

Open any page, press Present, and you’ve got a deck. Your slides were hiding in plain sight.

[Craig Aucutt @caidentity]

@joshpuckett dang... a lot to process😶