Simone Stolzoff

And I think that's sort of like the intersection of the two books, where if we take table stakes, the idea that there is no perfect job out there, we must be willing to trust our future selves and understand, okay, maybe AI is undermining my industry.

Maybe I don't know exactly what my 10-year plan is going to be, but I have built my uncertainty tolerance and I'm able to be resilient in the face of all this change.

We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes.

Well, as I mentioned earlier, I'm a new parent, so my schedule is a little bit more in flux than it used to be.

I'm grateful to say that I work for myself.

So for the last five years or so, I've been an independent author, trying to make it as a full-time author living in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the world.

But there are some choices that we've made structurally to make that more possible.

One is I live with my wife, my son, my mom, and my stepdad.

So we have this intergenerational home, and I live in my childhood home, the same house that I grew up in.

And having that level of support provides some buffer, both from a childcare perspective and from a work perspective.

And so there's this distinction that I make in my first book between what are called integrators and segmenters.

Integrators are people whose jobs integrate throughout their day.

They might do a little work in the morning, go on a run, go to the grocery store, come back, do a little work, hang out with their kids, have some dinner, do work after dinner.

Whereas segmenters are the people that want to

log on at 9 a.m., log off at 5, and then not open the laptop ever again.

I'm very much an integrator.

So I work in small pockets.

I try to keep my mornings reserved for creative work.

So output like writing that requires a little bit more of that deep work and do more of my administrative tasks in the afternoon.

But every day looks a little bit different for me.