Maria Semple

Like I don't want to be in a meeting that someone else is running, you know?

And so that to me is like why I like being a showrunner, for instance, and not just on the staff, because I don't waste other people's time and I don't waste my time.

Only so much can you say on a Zoom call of like, okay, you guys, will you do this another time?

I don't need to be here for this.

Like, can we go to the thing that I need to be here for?

And you do that sometime else.

So it's good to when you're a boss, then you can just like do what you need to do on the call and get off.

Right.

That's right.

That's right.

No, I think that's really good.

And it's just always – and I think that's really what I do every day when I start out.

That's what the stoicism does for me.

It's just like what am I going to fit into the day that's the best for me in terms of just like –

flourishing, right?

Like, I think I'm meant to write novels.

I love writing novels.

I want to write novels.

That's what I want to do.

How can I arrange my time and my to-do list and everything so that I can, like, really crush what I'm here to do?