When do you do the work.
Examples,
Andrew Wiles Fermat’s Last Theorem Chris Lattner, LLVM, SWift and Mojo
And in Slow Productivity, Cal also describes McPhee, as a freelance writer , who on the surface may look like someone who spent 2 years writing some article here and there but really Cal notes in a footnote on p 216 that McPhee still needed to keep a day job teaching at Princeton and needed royalties from books that were successful, because the articles he quote unquote took his time on werent really profitable.
Starving Artists
Bonus Story in debt heads, about Krystolyn Lloyd and her eviction notice2 and how she is above average in how much full time “career work” she does, doing broadway, off broadway, musicals plays , she said averaging 2-3/year over last 9 years, and yet she found herself essentially in the situation where she could not save and convinced by friends to do a go-fund-me to help prevent from getting evicted. So people commenting to her after she posted the go-fund-me praising her vulnerability and yet saying that wow if someone who is as successful–or at least perceived to be one of the actually successful actors–and what the heck incapable of saving money and getting evicted, then what the heck is up with this industry. This industry is appearing to be currently not livable, and that is the quote Krystolyn shared from a casting director who told her and her colleagues that it is not her responsibility to pay them a living wage. wow.
References
- . slow productivity
- debt heads, https://debtheads.substack.com/p/starring-on-and-off-broadway story, Krystolyn Lloyd