Eric Ries

That's, I try to do that all day.

And I try to carve out as much time as I can for when I'm writing, when I'm promoting and I'm doing a lot of interviews and I'm out there talking about the book.

So, you know, when companies call me for advice, which they do almost every day, then I'm in the trenches with them.

Like while we're talking to someone, a founder is raising a series A and he's texting me for term sheet, you know, tips and what do they say to this investor?

Like literally as we talk.

So yeah, I feel like the privilege of what I do

is just, it's an endlessly intellectually stimulating and it has so much variety to it.

It doesn't tend to stay stable from day one day to the next.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm very, I'm very clear about my priorities.

So I'm willing to tolerate a lot of schedule chaos because it's just like, look, this, this is, these are the priorities.

These are the ways in which I need to, I need to schedule.

I, you know, I'm very lucky to have a long time and, and a very trusted assistant who can help me manage, manage my time.

And I just try really hard not to spend time on logistics and scheduling and the meta work about work and as much as possible delegate that so that like my time is spent on the actual substance, whatever that substance may be.

Yeah, totally, totally.

No, those days are long, long since over.

I mean, the most meditative thing I do in the morning, most mornings, is I take my three-year-old downstairs and we sit on the couch and we read a book

she's in a Thomas the Train mode now.

So I'm like rereading these old Thomas the Train books that I, you know, that I read with my other kids when they were really young.

So yes, I can recite many lines of verse from Thomas the Train, you know, from these younger books.