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How Books Start
Nikesh tells us how he gets ideas for books.
  1. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  2. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. Newton Farm Questions
    05:46
    Newton Farm Questions
  10. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
  11. Keep going!
    01:28
    Keep going!
  12. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  13. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  14. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
  15. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  16. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  17. Don't Kvetch
    01:55
    Don't Kvetch
  18. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
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