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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. Beat the Calculator
    02:54
    Beat the Calculator
  3. 1089
    06:56
    1089
  4. Perfect pentagon
    04:14
    Perfect pentagon
  5. Fabulous flexagon
    02:05
    Fabulous flexagon
  6. Making Cubes
    05:26
    Making Cubes
  7. Prime number pizza
    04:24
    Prime number pizza
  8. Numerical masterclass
    03:20
    Numerical masterclass
  9. Q&A with Kjartan Poskitt
    05:19
    Q&A with Kjartan Poskitt
  10. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  11. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  12. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  13. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  14. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  15. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  16. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  17. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  18. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  19. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
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