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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. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  11. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  12. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  13. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  14. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  15. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  16. Questions from schools
    08:14
    Questions from schools
  17. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
  18. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  19. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
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