Jason Fried · 2024-05-22 · transcript · source ↗
Time and schedule for writing
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trying to learn ceramics on a wheel, you know? I need to go to an appointment to do that cuz there's someone waiting for me to teach, you know? But at some point, I want to then have the appointment and I want to do it because I want to do it. But I have to get there. And with writing, I don't feel like if I said like I'm going to write from 11:00 to 1:00 every day or whatever. These are just times. Like what if I'm not there mentally? What if I'm not ready for it? What if I had a bad call at 10:45? Now I have to sit down and write? Like I'm not in the mood. So, I don't do that. I don't I don't schedule this. The other thing is because I write quickly, I can fit it in. In fact, I'll often try to write things. I wrote something a few days ago called separation um which I which I really liked um and I
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I I had an appointment at 10:30 in the morning and it's like 10:10. I'm like, "I'm going to write I have the I've had this idea for I'm like I want to write this now. So, I've only got 20 minutes and I'm going to publish it before this call." So, I like the compressed time frame. Like I'm just going to get this out and be done. So, sometimes I'll do something right before I'll write write before I have something else to do so I don't go on too long with it. Yeah. Yeah. The other implicit answer there was was just space and buffer. Yeah. Just having the space for that when you get inspired that you can actually sit down to write. a very open calendar. Everyone in our company does. We don't share calendars so we're not I no one can take my time. I can't take anyone else's time. If you want to talk to me or I want to talk to you, not talk, but like if I want to schedule something, ask you. Hey, do you have an hour? Do
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you have Are you free from 3:00 to 5:00 or 3:00 to 4:00 whatever it is and we'll have a conversation about it. And that because of that, our calendars are open. So, I don't have to try to squeeze I like I just told you that I tried to squeeze in a piece of writing in 20 minutes because I I kind of didn't want to let to go on too long, but I don't have these short periods of time throughout my day. I have buffers. I've got lots of time. So, if it if if there's a calling, if I'm called to write something cuz I have something to say, then I'll just find the time in the day to do it. There always will be time to do that. I want to It's important for me in general, I found that one of my biggest regrets on a daily basis is having things scheduled that I don't want to do in advance. Ain't that right? Right? So, if I want to write and I'm