Bookshelves!
I love books, and here’s where I keep ’em:
Tag: research process
China’s Wings – how the sausage got made
I built most of China's Wings from these 4x6 cards, using the process described by Barbara Tuchman in her book Practicing History
The end of an Era: China’s Wings goes to the garage…
I’m re-organizing the office this week, moving out all the files related to the creation of China’s Wings in the hopes of making room for an (as-yet...
Practicing History, or, How Barbara Tuchman saved my bacon
Barbara Tuchman's book Practicing History taught me the system for organizing research on 4x6 index cards that I used to great effect while writing China's Wing...
Why interviewing Moon Chin is like interviewing a jazz riff…
As my understanding of CNAC improved, so did my ability to extract maximum value from my Moon Chin interviews, but even though I was getting more and more out o...
Ceiling 500 feet, intermittent drizzle
In 2004, I approached Moon Chin with great trepidation. My experiences at the CNAC reunion made it obvious that he had incredible standing and “face” among the ...