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Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
In this way, as an editor he did more than reflect the standards of his age; he consciously influenced and changed them by the new talents he published.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Nature as Teacher
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Its genesis is a largely obvious, mostly unremarkable blog post—not even four hundred words long—that outed a little-known technology investor as homosexual.
Ryan Holiday • Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire
Administrative responsibility came naturally. He handled the staff adroitly and was always able to cajole crusty Cambridge printers into opening the forms and remaking a page for last-minute submissions by tardy college journalists. “In his geniality was a kind of frictionless command,” his co-editor, W. Russell Bowie, recalled.53
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Even if the audience consists only of one person who isn’t part of the project, that can be enough.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Byrne is also the author of an astute book titled How Music Works,