Herbert Lui Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Herbert Lui

Writing is sketching: I’ve always loved the title of the book, Why Architects Still Draw; author Paolo Belardi makes the case that amidst more efficient, tech-driven, methods of putting plans together, drawing by hand is an integral part of the architect’s working process.

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge created Fleabag as a one-woman play. She says to Vulture: “It started as a challenge from a friend to do a ten-minute slot in her stand-up storytelling night, which is where this whole idea came from of doing it sort of stand-up-y." https://t.co/A2xUwHzPcI

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“When I read the book there were so many ready-made scenes, and the great venue of the oil fields and all that. Those were kind of the obvious things that seemed worth making a film about.” — Paul Thomas Anderson on Upton Sinclair’s Oil!

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@MKBHD @dickiebush @karenxcheng @austinkleon @JamesClear @sivers Thirdly, encouraging experimentation: "If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones." —Ray Bradbury

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@jayacunzo “The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.” — Lorne Michaels on SNL (via Tina Fey, Bossypants) Also included in the prompt, "Set a Time Limit," in Creative Doing: https://t.co/dSZccHHJrw https://t.co/cyxVC1Jclm

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Every month, I recommend 3 books to nearly 2,000 people. Monday’s newsletter will feature: @drjuliesmith’s Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Art of Mindful Living @MikeReissWriter’s and Mathew Klickstein’s Springfield Confidential Drops 8:30pm et ⤵ https://t.co/hk59hQiOMg

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Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien describe it this way in The Luxury Strategy, that democratization of products comes with the risk of vulgarization. In more contemporary terms, products that are too available become uncool (i.e., washed, mid, etc.)

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Every month, I recommend 3 books to nearly 2,000 people. Today’s newsletter will feature @jessica_bacal’s The Rejection that Changed My Life, @d_a_robson’s The Expectation Effect, and @RobertGreene’s and @50cent’s The 50th Law. Drops at 9pm et: https://t.co/bwYlL9kr0L

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Have you ever wondered why Calvin and Hobbes only exist on the printed page? No blockbuster movies or stuffed animals. Nobody even knows what they sound like. That’s because creator Bill Watterson chose not to license his work, and walked away from $10+ million. Here’s why: https://t.co/1zXpPwDhYK

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@tferriss A book— @melanie_warner's The Magic Feather Effect. https://t.co/pv611I2crj

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