Jason’s spontaneous workdays and unstructured flow

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setting aside time to produce something. It's just if it strikes I'll do it and if it doesn't it I won't. It's a very spontaneous sort of thing, which is how I do most things, frankly, is like a serendipitous sort of spontaneous kind of approach to things. Um, I feel like Yeah. How does your typical day look like? Like, do you have a to-do list? You open up your computer and you know, I'm going to work on these three things or it's just completely blank and you see where your inspiration goes. How does your day look like? Um, yeah, there's no to-do list. There's no list of things to do. Um there are projects that are ongoing that uh I might jump in and help. Um I might um have someone send me a ping and say in base camp say hey do you have 20 minutes to look at something or an hour to look at something or hey you want to look at or

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I might say hey I am using this thing it doesn't feel quite right. You got a few minutes to look at some stuff. So there's a lot of sort of bouncing around and then there's some creative thinking and you know like sketching for ideas that we're working on like how can we make this better? How can we improve that? where I'll be writing. Right now, we're working on a new book and I'm sort of in the early stages of just writing some stuff down. Um, but I I don't again I don't say like from from 1 to 3 I'm going to be writing, you know, from 3:30 to whatever I'm going to be doing. I mean, if there's a podcast, of course, like I've got that scheduled, but everything else is just flows. It's a very flowy kind of day. Um, and sometimes, um, I'm very absorbed in one thing. Other times I'm bouncing around, but there's there's no list of tasks and and nobody here has that list of tasks that's produced by anybody else. So

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nobody here receives a list of things they need to do. What they are is on a project and they figure out with their teammate, typically it's one other person, what they're going to be working on together and they figure that stuff out themselves. So nothing is prescribed in that way. So my day is like everyone else's day in that there's things to do and you kind of know what those things roughly are and you set out to do them and as you go you develop and discover more things to do and to improve and you know you collectively work on getting something done together. That's kind of how it goes. Has it always been that way or did you have to work your way towards that? Um it's pretty much always been that way for me. Uh I've never really been an organized worker in that in that

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way. I mean, back when I did client work, I would have like deadlines I need to to, you know, and we have them today still, but it wasn't like I would set out that these are the 12 things I need to do in a given day or they need to be done in this order. I just never worked that way. I just know it kind of needs to happen. And I think if I have to make a list, I have too many individual things. I'm getting too granular, you know? It's just it you don't in my opinion that that's sort of the wrong approach to knowing what to do. Um like I've got some work ahead of me that I know I need to get done. Like what's important? What how am I going to get there? And just set out to do the work instead of referring to a list and then referring back to my screen and going to