Made you cry

I finished reading Creativity Inc today. Ed uses many anecdotes from Pixar to talk about multiple things related to managing people and enabling the environments in which they do good work. I have jotted a few notes down and there will be more to say about it in the future.

The thing that I want to talk about today, is the ending of the book.

I was not expecting it.

In the end Ed talks about Steve Jobs. The man that he was, how he was different from how he was portrayed and so on. There were stories about the acquisition, how he would give notes to the directors and so on. And finally about the time at the end, when he was about to leave.

I was moved by those last few paragraphs. I was sitting in the metro and I had to stop myself a couple of times.

This was not fiction. Books such as these are not supposed to make you cry.

This one did!

And I thought to myself, this is what I want in my writing. Not morose descriptions of things. Not info dump. Every chapter has to make you feel something. Joy, despair, anger, fear. Something!