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“What makes Get Back so dramatic, in its undramatic way, is seeing the Beatles struggle to adjust to waking life.”

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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back

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Cedric Chin

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Jan 30

This was such a lovely essay, and I can’t help but notice the ‘desperation by design’ observation in the footnotes.

Cedric Chin

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There’s a wonderful book called The Uncertainty Mindset by

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, where he documents how the world’s top restaurants use ‘desperation by design’ as a forcing mechanism to do innovative new dishes and innovative new things. It appears The Beatles were the same.

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ha def desperation by design also uses fear as a nudge to finally throw out old ways of doing things that no longer work many creatives seem to use desperation by design instinctively—I think there are lots of mechanisms in it left to explore