Making movies
by Sidney Lumet · first published 1995
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Making Movies by Sidney Lumet and Leading by SAF taught me more about management than any other books.
on “Ask HN: Which book/site you learned the most basics of your field?” ↗"Making Movies" by Sidney Lumet was really helpful for me in a few different ways. I think it should be required reading for anyone creating with a team.
on “Ask HN: What books have you found understandable during serious depression?” ↗…explaining a character's psychological background as an alibi for everything it does ("Someone took his rubber duck when he was little, so now he kills people"). There's a good explanation in Sidney Lumet's Making Movies.
on “New Programming Jargon” ↗