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Ollie.

Goofy foot?

Yeah.

Or an ACL.

Yeah, he's like, all right, kids, watch out this.

And up, tore my ACL.

And then you just hear an ambulance come, and they just sort of pick him up and walk off into the stretcher.

All right, do we have a third message?

Ah, yes.

That's where we – Laura was talking to us about free time and scheduling and the myth that we don't have enough time.

All right.

Tyler says, that was a great interview with Laura Vanderkam.

I had already implemented several of her ideas independently into my life, so it was validating to hear this.

Are you familiar with the Paul Graham maker schedule versus manager schedules concept?

Laura's idea that we don't need long stretches of free time isn't exactly the same thing as the long stretches of unscheduled time that makers have in Paul Graham's article, but there are parallels.

And it made me wonder if us creative types are over romanticizing the idea of long uninterrupted time to work.

Could it be possible that the makers that Paul Graham is describing don't really need long stretches, but rather more mental discipline to quickly lock into a mental context and stay focused for a solid hour or two rather than a whole morning?

All right, there's a couple different things going on in here.

So first of all, I think he's asking a question about Laura's idea that when it comes to our life in general,

We have this imagination that we need very sort of like open schedules to be happy and that we're all really impoverished on time.