Joe Rohde's Floating Mountain is a memoir about creativity in groups, told through personal stories and parables from his work as a designer and explorer. The book skips chronological order for episodic chapters that mirror how creative thinking actually works, offering practical wisdom for anyone trying to make something together.
Tell us about Floating Mountain. This is a book about creative collaboration. It's like a memoir in that it uses anecdotes and parables from my life experience, both as a designer and in exploration, expeditionary experience, to go bit by bit talking about how do you— what is creativity? What is creativity in a group of people? How do you manage all of this so that it turns into one thing? And what does it possibly mean in the end. And it's very episodic, so it's not a chronological linearity. The linearity comes from the structure of the idea. The stories are all over the place, and partly because creativity is kind of free association. It's a book for people who want to create together.
